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Kafka Admin

Philadelphia, PA · On-site

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Whippany, NJ · On-site

$53.50 - $69.50/hr

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Kafka Admin

Philadelphia, PA • On-site

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Job description

Job Role: Kafka Admin

Job Location: Philadelphia, PA (100% Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Roles and Responsibilities

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka/Confluent in production.
  • Strong expertise with:
  • SSL/TLS end-to-end configuration in Kafka ecosystems
  • RBAC authorization configuration and operational administration
  • Designing for HA/redundancy and scaling for growth
  • Monitoring/alerting with Prometheus & Grafana, plus operational tooling such as New Relic
  • Performance testing and tuning (producers/consumers, brokers, Connect, infrastructure)
  • Demonstrated experience implementing:
  • Confluent Oracle Premium CDC Connector
  • Confluent sink to ADLS Gen2 (ADLS2)
  • Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Git, and building CI/CD pipelines.
  • Working knowledge of Apache Flink and hands-on experience writing Kafka Streams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Security & Access Control
  • Configure end-to-end SSL/TLS across Kafka/Confluent components and client integrations.
  • Implement and manage RBAC for authorizations, service accounts, and least-privilege access.
  • High Availability, Redundancy & Failover
  • Configure core components for redundancy and failover resilience (brokers/controllers, Connect, Schema Registry, etc.).
  • Design and implement a Kafka disaster recovery (DR) cluster, including replication strategy, failover testing, and runbooks aligned to RPO/RTO.
  • Scale & Future Growth
  • Plan and implement platform scalability for future growth (topic/partition strategy, retention, throughput, capacity planning).
  • Establish sustainable operational practices for multi-team usage and governance.
  • Monitoring, Alerting & Operations
  • Set up monitoring and alerts for streaming messages and platform health using Prometheus & Grafana.
  • Integrate New Relic dashboards/alerts to support operational visibility, incident response, and service health metrics.
  • Performance Engineering
  • Perform performance testing and tune Kafka/Confluent components for optimal throughput, latency, and stability.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across brokers, networking, storage, Connect, and client workloads.
  • Connectors & Data Integration
  • Implement and support Confluent Oracle Premium CDC Connector (configuration, offsets, schema evolution, error handling, operations).
  • Implement and support Confluent Sink Connector to ADLS2 (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2) with reliable delivery and partitioning strategies.
  • Streaming Development
  • Build and support stream processing using Apache Flink (job configuration, deployment patterns, operationalization).
  • Develop Kafka Streams applications (topology design, state stores, exactly-once/processing guarantees as needed).
  • DevOps & Automation
  • Use Azure DevOps with Git integration for version control, reviews, and change management.
  • Deploy and manage cloud resources using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform configuration, connectors, and streaming jobs across environments.
  • Cost Allocation
  • Support chargeback/show back calculations for Kafka usage (e.g., throughput, storage, partitions, connector/resource utilization) and related reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience implementing and testing Kafka DR cluster architectures and operational runbooks.
  • Familiarity with enterprise governance patterns (multi-tenancy, naming standards, quotas, schema governance).
  • Experience defining usage metering to enable reliable chargeback/show back.
  • Additional Expectations
  • Proficiency with using Linux CLI (preferably RHEL/SLES).
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and provide timely incident support (if required).
  • Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills across engineering, operations, and product teams.
  • Ability to create design patterns/templates, provide development support and conduct knowledge transfer sessions for onboarding new use cases and modernizing existing ones.

Thanks & Regards

akhil

akhil@tror.ai