Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator

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Description: Hybrid 4 onsite in Maryland Heights, MO Our client seeks a Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator to support and administer Kafka platforms across on-premises Cloudera and Confluent environments and AWS MSK. The role will operate Kafka in production, drive reliability, and partner with producer and consumer teams. The engineer will maintain Terraform infrastructure and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability with Datadog, and contribute to ongoing modernization and workload transitions to AWS MSK. We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. 00/hr. w2 Responsibilities Administer and operate Kafka clusters across Cloudera, Confluent Platform, and AWS MSK. Provide daily operational support including incident response, on-call participation, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements. Manage topics, partitions, replication, retention, quotas, ACLs, and consumer groups. Tune brokers, producers, and consumers for throughput, latency, and reliability. Handle patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance troubleshooting. Configure and maintain security including TLS/SSL, SASL, mTLS, IAM for MSK, RBAC/ACLs, and encryption at rest and in transit. Partner on migration and modernization efforts from on-prem to AWS MSK using mechanisms such as MirrorMaker 2, Confluent Repl

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