[Hiring] Kafka Admin @TEKsystems

Role Description

Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix

• Serve as a Confluent Cloud and Kafka team member to design, install, deploy, and administer the platform.
• Provide 24x7 support when on call.
• Partner with architecture team to drive platform alignment to modern architecture practices.
• Patch, create roadmaps, and assist junior engineers.
• Build automation for install and platform management activities, such as restarts, patching, and other scenarios.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering and management involving Middleware technologies with a focus on Confluent Cloud and Kafka.
• 3+ years of experience with installation, configuration, and administration of Confluent Cloud or Kafka.
• 3+ years of experience with UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, and network protocols.
• 3+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems using messaging platforms.
• 2+ years of creating great documentation that enables other team members to learn and execute platform engineering and management activities.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in production support for Confluent or Kafka platform including troubleshooting and fixing production defects.
• 3+ years applying DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns to build automation.
• Able and ready to learn and support other Middleware technologies in support of Platform Engineering roadmap with DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, software-defined engineering patterns, and use of GitHub or comparable code repository.
• 3+ years of experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and other Infra automation technologies.

Core Competencies

• Very good written and verbal communication skills. Should be able to create good documents.
• Preferring someone who takes end-to-end responsibilities of the issues and drives them to closure with minimal support and follow-ups from the team.
• Understands change management importance/procedures.
• Embrace and demonstrate automation-first approach.
• Should be a team player and ready to spread knowledge within the team.

Preferences

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Must be able to use Linux commands and tools to troubleshoot issues, parse and evaluate log files.
• Experience with application profiling using tools such as Dynatrace, VisualVM, or Jprofiler.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Experience with performance tuning for JVMs, web containers, DB connection pools, etc.
• Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevSecOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile project Delivery, Release Engineering.

Skills

• Kafka
• Unix
• Middleware
• Confluent Kafka
• GitHub
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Pay and Benefits

• The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $80.00/hr.
• Medical, dental & vision.
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available.
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents).
• Short and long-term disability.
• Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Transportation benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave).

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 29, 2026.