Technology Lead | Java | J2EE

POC - Diksha

Job Details:

Job title: Kafka Administrator
Work Location with Zip code: Englewood, CO 80111
Duration of the project: 6 Months
This role requires any travel (Yes/No): NO
Please confirm if this would be onsite from day one OR Initial remote for 2-3 months, and then expect the candidate to work from the office OR 100% Remote: 100% WFO
Is this a 100% remote role? NO
Vendor rate range: #### - 60
Minimum years of experience required: 8-10 years
Would you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview? Yes
Education Qualification required: Bachelor s / Masters

Must have skills:
SRE, or DevOps 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.
Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker Confluent Replicator
Strong Linux fundamentals networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing)
Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration.
Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.

Good to Have Skills:
Kafka Administrator

Detailed Job Description:
o Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).
o Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.
o Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.
o Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.
o Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking.
o 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 years of experience: 8-10 years

Education: Bachelor s / Masters

The top 3 responsibilities would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute:
Coding
Debugging
Unit Testing

Project Code: AVOCC AOA ASTRO Tools and Automation SOW