[Hiring] Kafka Admin @TEKsystems
Kafka Admin @TEKsystems
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Salary usd 65 - 80 per..
Remote Location
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA Only
Employment Type contract
Posted 2d ago

[Hiring] Kafka Admin @TEKsystems

2d ago - TEKsystems is hiring a remote Kafka Admin. πŸ’Έ Salary: usd 65 - 80 per hour πŸ“Location: USA

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.

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Employment Type contract
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