Kafka Administrator

Currently working on migrating all Cloudera Kafka from on prem to AWS. They need this person to handle to workload.

Responsibilities:

Kafka Administration & Ongoing Support (On-Prem + Cloud)
AWS MSK Modernization (Parallel Workstream)
CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code
Observability & Monitoring

Required Qualifications:
5+ years in data/platform/infrastructure engineering, with 4+ years operating Apache Kafka in production.**
Hands-on administration experience with **Cloudera** and **Confluent Platform**.
Production experience with **AWS MSK** (provisioning, configuration, IAM auth, networking).
Experience supporting and operating Kafka in production, including on-call and incident response.
Strong **Terraform** and **GitLab CI/CD** experience for infrastructure automation.
Hands-on **Datadog** experience for monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.
Deep understanding of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, ISR, offsets, consumer groups, and delivery semantics.
Solid AWS fundamentals: VPC, security groups, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, PrivateLink.
Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills (Bash, Python).
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working effectively in a team.
Preferred Skills:
Experience with **MirrorMaker 2**, Confluent Replicator, or cluster linking for replication and workload transition.
Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB experience.
Kafka Streams or Flink familiarity.
Kubernetes / EKS experience (e.g., Strimzi).
Certifications: Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps.
Experience in a regulated or large enterprise environment.