Role: Sr. Kafka Admin/Platform Engineer
Type: Long Term Contract
Contract Type: W2 OR 1099
Work Location: New York City, NY (100% ONSITE-3 Days Hybrid) NO REMOTE
Job Responsibilities:
- Setup new Confluent Kafka platform.
- Upgrade and maintain existing platform to approved version in the organization.
- Implement security best practices for Kafka cluster.
- Maintain & tune Kafka cluster for scalability and performance.
- Understanding of Kafka Brokers.
- Understanding of Kafka client (Producer and consumer) concepts.
- Collaborate among development teams, product Managers, operations teams and architecture groups.
- Ability to install and configure Kafka On-prem (must) and Confluent Cloud (good to have).
- Good scripting and automation skills.
- Observability skills to monitor tools/infrastructure (good to have).