Wise Skulls

Senior Kafka Administrator

Denver, CO • Posted 1 weeks ago
Onsite Full Time Staffing and Recruiting

Hiring: Senior Kafka Administrator | Denver, CO / St. Louis, MO | Onsite


We’re looking for a Senior Kafka Administrator with strong Confluent Platform expertise to manage on-prem Kafka clusters, lead hardware refreshes, and improve platform reliability, performance, and automation.


Location: Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO (Onsite)

Duration: 6 months (possible extension)


Work Authorization: USC & GC Candidates Only


Key Skills:

  • 4+ years of hands-on Kafka administration in production environments
  • Strong expertise in Confluent Platform and Kafka internals
  • Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker / Confluent Replicator
  • On-prem cluster upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and performance tuning
  • Linux, networking, scripting, and DevOps automation
  • Monitoring tools: Datadog, Grafana, JMX exporters
  • High availability, disaster recovery, and incident management
  • AWS MSK experience is a plus


What We’re Looking For:

A senior Kafka professional who can lead on-prem cluster refreshes, ensure high availability and performance, automate operational processes, and deliver comprehensive documentation and runbooks.


Interested? Apply or DM me to discuss this opportunity.

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Senior Kafka Administrator in Denver at Wise Skulls

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