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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AWS Kafka Engineer/Administrators - **Company:** AMDOCS LTD - **Location:** Englewood, CO, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $104,000.0 - **Contract:** Contract - **Skills:** Access Control List, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, User Authentication, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Disaster Recovery, Failover, Fiddler (Software), Github, IBM WebSphere MQ, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Prometheus, Shell Script, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Apache Zookeeper, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Gitlab, Git, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Stream Processing, OpenSearch, Jenkins, Confluent - **Published:** October 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ea211e7f-067e-4614-93b1-2cfbce71724d ## About the Role We need 2 AWS Kafka Engineer/Administrators. This position will be onsite near Fiddler's Creek Circle, Englewood, Colorado or Riverport Drive in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Any Visa will do. The expectation is that the first interview will be virtual and the 2nd will be face to face, so the candidate MUST be able to attend an in-person interview in either of these 2 locations. Max rate is $50/hr. Possibly a bit more for an extremely strong candidate., * 3+ years of hands-on experience administering enterprise Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform environments, including production cluster design, capacity planning, upgrades, patching, performance tuning, and lifecycle management. * 3+ years of experience troubleshooting complex Kafka issues involving broker availability, replication, partitioning, rebalance behavior, consumer lag, throughput, latency, storage, and Kafka Connect task failures. * 3+ years of experience automating infrastructure and platform operations with Terraform and Ansible, supported by Git-based CI/CD pipelines and Python or shell scripting. * Demonstrated experience designing and supporting highly available Kafka architectures, including cross-cluster replication, failover, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing. * Deep understanding of Kafka security and governance, including TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC, Schema Registry compatibility, service accounts, credential management, and audit controls. * Experience designing and operating observability capabilities using Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center, OpenSearch, or equivalent solutions, including actionable dashboards and alert thresholds. * Proven ability to define engineering standards, advise application teams on producer and consumer patterns, review platform designs, and lead technical resolution across multiple teams. * Proven excellence in client-facing communication, technical documentation, incident leadership, root cause analysis, and consulting skills in English. * Ability to work in office, participate in an on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior client resources and vendor support teams., * Experience with Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud components such as KRaft or ZooKeeper, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Control Center, Cluster Linking, and stream-processing capabilities. * Experience operating Kafka on AWS, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, or another cloud or container platform; AWS Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) experience is beneficial. * Experience with GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or comparable CI/CD and GitOps tooling. * Experience integrating Kafka with Amazon S3, Trino, OpenSearch, relational databases, IBM MQ, data warehouses, or other enterprise source and sink systems. * Familiarity with data governance, schema evolution, topic naming and retention standards, capacity forecasting, service-level objectives, and platform cost optimization. * Relevant certification or formal training in Apache Kafka, Confluent, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or related technologies. ## Description * Design, deploy, configure, upgrade, and maintain highly available, scalable Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform clusters for real-time data processing across production and non-production environments. * Monitor platform health, broker performance, replication, partition balance, throughput, storage utilization, consumer lag, and connector status; troubleshoot incidents and tune the platform for reliability, performance, and minimal downtime. * Build and support Kafka topics, partitions, replication policies, schemas, service accounts, and Kafka Connect integrations, including connectors for Amazon S3, Trino, and OpenSearch; assist application and data teams with producer and consumer integration. * Implement and maintain platform security and compliance controls, including TLS encryption, SASL authentication, access control lists, role-based access control, secrets management, auditability, and secure certificate lifecycle practices. * Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, patching, and operational tasks using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Python or shell scripting. * Plan and test backup, recovery, failover, cross-cluster replication, and disaster recovery procedures to support defined service-level objectives and business continuity requirements. * Participate in production support and on-call rotation, lead technical troubleshooting, document root cause analyses, and coordinate resolution with application teams, infrastructure teams, incident managers, vendors, and cloud support personnel. * Provide technical guidance on Kafka architecture and operational best practices; maintain runbooks, standards, diagrams, capacity plans, and support documentation; and remain current with Apache Kafka and Confluent capabilities.