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Senior Kafka Administrator

mProgenSt. Louis, MO🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationSt. Louis, MO, United States
GitAWSApacheBashDatadogGitLab CIKafkaPythonTerraformCI/CDLinuxIAM

Job description

Location - Saint Louis/MO or Denver, CO

Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator (Contract)

About the Role

We are migrating a portfolio of Apache Kafka clusters from on-premises platforms (Cloudera and Confluent) to AWS MSK, managed through a CI/CD pipeline built on Terraform and GitLab. We are looking for a senior, hands-on Kafka engineer to own day-to-day Kafka administration across both environments, drive the migration, and coordinate closely with producer and consumer application teams to ensure a smooth, low-risk cutover.

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).

Proven experience migrating Kafka workloads to the cloud with minimal disruption.

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 coordination skills to work across producer/consumer teams.

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