DevOps Engineer - Englewood, CO

The following requirement is open with our client.                        

Title                                     : DevOps Engineer

Location                             : Englewood, CO

Pay rate                      : $50 - $53/hr on W2

Duration                            : 12 Months

Relevant Experience (in Yrs.): 5 yrs.

Role Descriptions:

·         5 years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps;

·         4 years'' operating Kafka in production at scale.

·         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.

·         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, Mirror Maker/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.

·         Hardware refresh planning, migration/cutover strategy, monitoring, backup/restore and DR playbooks, knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.

·         Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies

·         Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator

·         Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis

Must have skills:

DevOps Engineer

Kafka, SRE, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker

AWS, Linux, networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing),

Incident Management, JMX, Data Dog, Grafana

Thanks & regards, 

Naveen Yarramsetty

Technical Recruiter | ASCII Group, LLC
Office: 

Email: 

38345 W. 10 Mile Rd, Ste.#365; Farmington, MI  48335 

Website: 

Salary : $50 - $53