Hi Recruiting Family, hope all is well
Need your support .
Note: Green Card and US Citizens only
HIGH PRIORITY ROLES
Need Only Locals to St. Louis, MO (Face to Face interview is there)
Job Title: Kafka Admin
Location: St. Louis, MO (Onsite)
JD
About the Engagement: 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.strategy, and cluster right-sizing.
Regards
Andrew