Consultant | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps

Job-ID28980541Reference26-07733Description: POC: RajuJob Details:· Job title: Senior Kafka Devops 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: Onsite from day one· Is this a 100% remote role? NO· Vendor rate range: ***· Minimum years of experience required: 5-8 Years· Would you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview?: Video/Virtual Interview· Education Qualification required: BEMust have skills:Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategiesHands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent ReplicatorStrong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysisProficiency in automation/scriptingMonitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregationExperience with DR, multi-region design, and incident managementProven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentationGood to Have SkillsExperience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integrationExperience executing hardware refreshes or major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtimeDetailed Job Description:5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps;4+ years’ operating Kafka in production at scale.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.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, Mirror Maker/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.Hardware refresh planning, migration/cutover strategy, monitoring, backup/restore and DR playbooks, knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.Minimum years of experience: 5-8 yearsEducation: Bachelor's or Master of EngineeringCustom Fields: Name: Intake Call CompletedValue: trueName: Intake Call RequestedValue: true