Senior Apache NiFi Administrator (Only W2)@Charlotte, NC

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Senior Apache NiFi Administrator (Only W2)
Employment Type: Contract
Location: Charlotte, NC
Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Apache NiFi Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in Apache NiFi administration, AWS cloud administration, and Terraform. This role will support enterprise data-flow platforms in production while also contributing to new environment builds, cloud modernization, and platform migration initiatives.
The ideal candidate brings deep operational experience supporting NiFi in complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on platform reliability, performance, security, high availability, and incident response. This individual must also have proven experience deploying and supporting migration efforts from on-prem infrastructure to cloud-based environments.
Key Responsibilities
Administer, support, and maintain Apache NiFi clusters in enterprise production environments.
Manage NiFi flows, processors, queues, templates, parameter contexts, and controller services.
Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of NiFi platforms.
Monitor platform health, throughput, latency, failures, and overall system performance.
Troubleshoot flow failures, back-pressure issues, cluster instability, and node failures.
Manage NiFi security, including TLS/SSL, certificates, access controls, users, and policies.
Perform root cause analysis and lead resolution of platform incidents and production issues.
Ensure high availability, recoverability, node health, and data integrity across environments.
Participate in new environment builds.
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and support procedures.
Required Qualifications
Unix
Strong hands-on knowledge of administering and supporting Unix platforms.
Apache NiFi Administration
5+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Apache NiFi in enterprise environments.
Strong experience with NiFi clusters, flows, processors, queues, controller services, upgrades, and configuration management.
Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues, flow failures, back-pressure, and node-level incidents.
Experience managing NiFi security, including certificates, TLS/SSL, user access, and policy administration.
Strong knowledge of production support, platform monitoring, and incident response.

AWS Administration
Strong hands-on experience with AWS administration in enterprise production environments.
Working knowledge of AWS services using Terraform to provision services such as:
EC2
S3
IAM
VPC
Security Groups
CloudWatch
ECS
EMR
Load balancers / networking components
Experience supporting secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments.
Building AWS platforms using Terraform.
Operations & Support
Experience remediating security vulnerabilities, including CVE patching, OS patching, and library updates.
Experience using ticketing tools such as Jira, Cherwell, Ivanti, or similar.
Ability to create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational support documentation.
Comfortable working in incident-driven, 24×7 production support environments.
Nice to Have
Experience with Firewalls and databases.
Experience with Kafka, APIs, and cloud storage integrations.
Experience with automation scripting, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure automation.
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as:
AWS CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Soft Skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to lead troubleshooting calls and clearly communicate technical issues.
Detail-oriented with strong documentation habits.
Calm, organized, and effective during production incidents and escalations.