IT - Consultant | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps

Cloudspace LLC
Denver, CO, United States
17 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$88,000.0 - $118,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Linux DevOps Domain Name System (DNS) Java Management Extensions Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Web Services Load Balancing Cloud Platform System Grafana Apache Kafka Confluent

Requirements

POC: RajuInterview Process :Infosys Technical Round 1 Virtual Teams / Webex.Infosys Client Technical Round 2 - From Denver office face to face .Job Details: Job title: Senior Kafka Devops Administrator Work Location with Zip code: Englewood, CO 80111 Duration of the project: 6 Months This role requires any travel (Yes/No): NO Please confirm if this would be onsite from day one OR Initial remote for 2-3 months, and then expect the candidate to work from the office OR 100% Remote: Onsite from day one Is this a 100% remote role? NO Vendor rate range: $66.50 to $70 Minimum years of experience required: 5-8 Years Would you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview?: Video/Virtual Interview Education Qualification required: BE Must have skills:Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategiesHands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent ReplicatorStrong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysisProficiency in automation/scriptingMonitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregationExperience with DR, multi-region design, and incident managementProven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentationGood to Have SkillsExperience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integrationExperience executing hardware refreshes or major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtimeDetailed Job Description:5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps;4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.We re seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform.You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response.Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross environment alignment.Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.Hardware refresh planning, migration/cutover strategy, monitoring, backup/restore and DR playbooks, knowledge transfer and documentation handoff. Minimum years of experience: 5-8 yearsEducation: Bachelor’s or Master of Engineering Project Code: CapEx Wireline ENGHSP Child code Indore, Job Title* Senior Consultant | Telecom | OSS/BSSWork Location : DenverCO80220 Vendor Rate* $72.20/hrContract duration (in months)* 6Job Details:Must Have Skills (Top 3 technical sk…

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