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Kafka Admin-100% Remote

Job summary

Fort Mill
Engineering

Work model

Fully remote
Only United States
1 week ago
Job description

Overview

  • Location: 100% Remote
  • Contract Duration: 6 Months
  • Employment Type: W2 Only (No C2C)
  • Pay Range: $65.00 - $80.00/hr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Confluent Cloud and Kafka team member to design, install, deploy, and administer the platform.
  • Provide 24x7 support when on call.
  • Partner with the architecture team to drive platform alignment to modern architecture practices.
  • Patch, create roadmaps, and assist junior engineers.
  • Build automation for installation and platform management activities, such as restarts, patching, and other scenarios.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in platform engineering and management involving Middleware technologies with a focus on Confluent Cloud and Kafka.
  • 3+ years of experience with installation, configuration, and administration of Confluent Cloud or Kafka.
  • 3+ years of experience with UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, and network protocols.
  • 3+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems using messaging platforms.
  • 2+ years of creating documentation that enables other team members to learn and execute platform engineering and management activities.

Core Competencies

Technical Skills

  • 3+ years of experience in production support for Confluent or Kafka platforms, including troubleshooting and fixing production defects.
  • 3+ years applying DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns to build automation.
  • Experience with GitHub or comparable code repositories.
  • 3+ years of experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and other infrastructure automation technologies.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to take end-to-end responsibility for issues and drive them to closure.
  • Understanding of change management procedures.
  • Embrace and demonstrate an automation-first approach.
  • Strong team player committed to knowledge sharing.

Preferences

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Proficiency in Linux commands and tools for troubleshooting and log analysis.
  • Experience with application profiling (e.g., Dynatrace, VisualVM, Jprofiler).
  • Experience with performance tuning for JVMs, web containers, and DB connection pools.
  • Understanding of modern work practices: DevSecOps, CI/CD, Agile project delivery, and Release Engineering.

Benefits

If eligible, benefits may include:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage.
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan (Pre-tax and Roth).
  • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D).
  • Short and long-term disability.
  • Health Spending Account (HSA).
  • Transportation benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation, or Sick Leave).

About TEKsystems

We are partners in transformation, helping clients activate ideas and solutions. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services and Talent Services, we work with progressive leaders to drive change.

TEKsystems is an equal opportunity employer.