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Senior Kafka Administrator – Ansible
Location: Maryland (MD) / Onsite
Job Summary:
Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator with strong Ansible automation expertise to administer production Confluent Kafka environments, automate deployments and operations, maintain observability, and ensure secure and reliable distributed systems.
Key Skills:
- Strong production experience with Confluent Kafka
- Extensive Ansible experience — playbooks, roles, modules, debugging, and automation
- Experience with Ansible Tower/AWX and Ansible Vault
- Design idempotent and scalable automation across multiple environments
- CI/CD, Git, and Jenkins integration
- Strong Python and Bash scripting
- Advanced Linux administration — SELinux, systemd, permissions, networking
- Kafka security: SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, MDS
- Monitoring with Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana
- Kafka topics, schemas, connectors, and performance troubleshooting
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid/cloud environments
- Ability to convert manual processes into automated workflows and optimize environments
- Ability to support and train teams on automation best practices