Kafka Administrator

Kafka Administrator

Irving, Texas

Hybrid

Contract

$66 / hr - $71 / hr

Grow your career as a Kafka Administrator with an innovative global bank. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration : 8+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

Bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred.

6+ years of infrastructure engineering experience using Confluent Kafka.

Expert in installing and maintaining Confluent Platform components including Apache Kafka, Confluent Control Center, Confluent Schema Registry, connectors, Confluent Replicator, and Confluent Security Plugins.

Strong administration experience for Confluent Kafka.

Strong scripting skills preferred (Ansible, Bash, Python) for infrastructure automation. Strongly prefer AI-related Python experience as future needs may arise.

Experience administering Event-Driven Architecture Components : Apache Kafka, Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, Confluent Control Center, Confluent Schema Registry, Connect cluster, etc.

Experience performing Confluent Platform installation, upgrades, and maintenance.

Experience in managing large-scale multi-node Kafka cluster environments.

Expertise in scripting technologies : Shell or Python for software automation.

Experience working or leading requirements gathering for multiple large development projects simultaneously.

Experience performing Confluent Platform installation, upgrades, and maintenance.

Flexibility and ability to work a rotating on-call schedule monthly.

What You Will Be Doing

Provide Level 3 (L3) Production Support, Engineering, and User Onboarding to Kafka.

Analyze and identify existing Production issues and recommend appropriate solutions.

Implement and use monitoring and observability tools, including Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, JMX, to ensure system health and performance is measured.

Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes

Document requirements for complex, high-impact application enhancements and problem resolution.

Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and security issues; communicate impact and propose risk mitigation options.

Utilize ticketing tools such as JIRA, ServiceNow for issue tracking and collaboration.

Plan and execute existing Middleware Integrations to Kafka, with minimal disruption and optimal performance.

You will receive the following benefits :

Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

Vision Benefits

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

Hospital Indemnity Insurance

401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

Paid Sick Time Leave

Legal and Identity Protection Plans

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by : Melissa Klein

Specialization :

• Software Engineering