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Senior Kafka Engineer/Administrator
Erostechnologies
Denver, Colorado, United States
Negotiable
Erostechnologies is hiring on behalf of a confidential client.About the roleWe are looking for a Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator with strong hands-on experience in Apache Kafka administration, cloud migration, and infrastructure automation.The ideal candidate will lead the migration of Kafka clusters from Cloudera and Confluent Platform to AWS MSK, leveraging Terraform and GitLab CI/CD while ensuring minimal disruption to production workloads.Requirements Local Candidates Only NO Junior Profile please Share more than 14+ Profile 4+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka production experience Strong administration experience with Cloudera and Confluent Platform Hands-on AWS MSK provisioning, configuration, IAM authentication, and networking Experience migrating Kafka workloads from on-premises to AWS Strong Terraform and GitLab CI/CD skills Hands-on Datadog monitoring, dashboards, and alerting Deep understanding of Kafka partitions, replication, ISR, offsets, and consumer groups Strong AWS knowledge: VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, Security Groups, and PrivateLink Proficiency in Linux, Bash, Python, and networking Excellent communication and coordination with producer and consumer application teams Preferred: MirrorMaker 2, Confluent Replicator, or Cluster Linking Preferred: Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB Preferred: Kafka Streams or Apache Flink Preferred: Kubernetes / EKS / Strimzi Preferred: Confluent or AWS certifications Preferred: Experience in large enterprise or regulated environments Schedule Long-Term Contract Hybrid – 4 Days/Week in Office How to apply Share your updated resume. Location Denver, CO / St. Louis, MO