Senior Kafka Administrator

Senior Kafka Administrator – Ansible

Location: Maryland (MD) / Onsite

Job Summary:
Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator with strong Ansible automation expertise to administer production Confluent Kafka environments, automate deployments and operations, maintain observability, and ensure secure and reliable distributed systems.

Key Skills:

• Strong production experience with Confluent Kafka
• Extensive Ansible experience — playbooks, roles, modules, debugging, and automation
• Experience with Ansible Tower/AWX and Ansible Vault
• Design idempotent and scalable automation across multiple environments
• CI/CD, Git, and Jenkins integration
• Strong Python and Bash scripting
• Advanced Linux administration — SELinux, systemd, permissions, networking
• Kafka security: SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, MDS
• Monitoring with Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana
• Kafka topics, schemas, connectors, and performance troubleshooting
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid/cloud environments
• Ability to convert manual processes into automated workflows and optimize environments
• Ability to support and train teams on automation best practices