Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps
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Job Title: Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps -- Kafka Admin Work Location & Reporting Address: Denver, CO 80111 or St Louis, MO 63131 (Onsite) Contract duration: 12 MAX VENDOR RATE: ***-*** per hour max Target Start Date: 13 Mar 2026 Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes
Must Have Skills: • Must have deep, hands-on experience running Kafka in large-scale production environments, including cluster operations, upgrades, patches, and migrations. • Should understand Kafka internals such as partitions, replication, retention/compaction, and rebalance strategies. o Kafka Administration o Platform / SRE / DevOps Experience o Kafka Ecosystem Tools o Linux + Networking o Automation / Scripting o Monitoring / Observability o Disaster Recovery
Nice to Have Skills: • AWS MSK / Apache Kafka Cloud: Experience with MSK operations and cloud-aligned Kafka environments. • Helpful for cross-environment consistency between on-prem and cloud. • Hardware Refresh Experience: Prior work leading Kafka hardware refreshes or cluster rebuilds.
Detailed Job Description:
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience: We're seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on-prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response. Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross-environment alignment. Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.
Kafka Platform Support Key Responsibilities • Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK). • Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost. • Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. • Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus. • Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. • Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.
Contract Deliverables • Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register • Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks • Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks. • Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.
Minimum Qualifications • 5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps; 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale. • Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies. • Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator. • Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis. • Proficiency in automation/scripting. • Monitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation. • Experience with DR, multi-region design, and incident management. • Proven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation
Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration. • Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.
Minimum Years of Experience: • 5+ years
Certifications Needed: • None
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