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# Confluent Kafka Administrator / Confluent Kafka Integration Engineer

- **Company:** Zillion Technologies
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Authentication Protocols, Disaster Recovery, OpenShift, Role-Based Access Control, Systems Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, System Availability, Grafana, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, Confluent
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5ee4a010-caf5-4550-a840-77ffc6ba65e2

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms.

 * 3+ years of hands-on administration experience with Confluent Kafka.

 * Experience managing multi-environment Kafka deployments (Development, QA, Performance, DR, and Production).

 * Experience with Kafka cluster sizing, broker management, partition strategy, replication, retention policies, and capacity planning.

 * Experience in troubleshooting producer, consumer, broker, and cluster-level issues.

 * Experience with Confluent Control Center, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB, and stream processing technologies.

 * Experience implementing high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster replication strategies.

 * Hands-on experience with Kafka security, including TLS, mTLS, RBAC, ACLs, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.

 * Experience integrating Kafka with Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud platforms, observability tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

 * Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, data contracts, and enterprise integration patterns.