Kafka/UNIX Admin

PLEASE NOTE: We are only able to leverage direct W2 employees for this role, no C2C, sub vendor or transfer candidates will be reviewed.

Our customer is seeking a tenured and capable enterprise Kafka Admin to help support the ongoing platform improvement of their Kafka environment. This will be a long-term contract with the possibility of FTE conversion with strong performance.

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 platform
• 2+ years of creating great documentation that enables other team members to learn and execute platform engineering and management activities.

Technical Skills

• 3+ years' experience in production support for Confluent or Kafka platform including troubleshooting and fixing production defects.
• 3+ years applying DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns to build automation. Able and ready to learn and support other Middleware technologies in support of Platform Engineering roadmap with DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, software defined engineering patterns, and use of GitHub or comparable code repository.
• 3+ years of experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and other Infra automation technologies

Soft Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Should be able to create and present documentation.
• Understands change management importance/procedures.
• Embrace and demonstrate automation first approach
• Should be a team player and ready to spread knowledge within the team.

Preferences

• Bachelor's degree
• Must be able to use Linux commands and tools to troubleshoot issues, parse and evaluate log files.
• Experience with application profiling using tools such as Dynatrace, VisualVM or Jprofiler.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with performance tuning for JVMs, web containers, DB connection pools, etc.
• Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevSecOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile project Delivery, Release Engineering.

Job Type & Location

This is a fully remote, long-term contract position based out of Fort Mill, SC.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $80.00/hr.

If eligible, benefits may include:

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

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 31, 2026.

About TEKsystems

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