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Kafka Operations Administrator

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Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/23/2026
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Role: Kafka Operations Administrator

Location: Seattle WA/ Dallas TX

Duration: 6 months (can extend)

Kafka Operations Administrator

Must Have TechnicalFunctional Skills

Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience| managing| maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability| disaster recovery| fail-over and overall reliability

Kafka ecosystem tooling experience

Kafka Connect| Schema RegistryProficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards)| Prometheus| JMX metrics and SplunkAutomation and orchestration experience Terraform| Ansible| Helm| Kubernetes (EKSAKSGKE) or equivalent

Scripting and tooling experience

Python or Bash for automation and runbooks

Strong Linux system administration experience| including troubleshooting| automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.

Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments| ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.

Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms TLS| ACLs| RBAC| encryption at restin transitExperience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations| JVM tuning| Analysis| network and disk IO diagnostics and documenting incidentspostmortems

Experience in TCPIP| routing| switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Good to Have

Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experienceKnowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once| exactly-once)

Cloud-native securitycompliance experience (IAM| VPC| KMS| Security Groups)

Certifications Confluent Certified Administrator| AWSAzureGoogle Cloud Platform certifications

Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode| including set up| configuration| troubleshooting and cluster managementContainerization and Container Orchestration Tools

experience Docker| KubernetesExperience with CICD pipelines and Git-based workflows

Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg Avro| JSON)

Role and Responsibilities

Deploy| configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SL

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