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Job Title: Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps -- Kafka Admin
Work Location & Reporting Address: Denver, CO or St Louis, MO (Onsite)
Contract duration:
MAX VENDOR RATE: per hour max
Target Start Date: Mar
Does this position require . 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
? years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps; 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:
? years

Certifications Needed:
? None

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