| Location | Tunnel Hill, GA (Remote) |
POC: Bharath Subramanya
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Job title: Senior Technology Architect
Work Location: Tunnel Hill, GA, USA
Vendor Rate: ####/hour
Minimum years of experience: 10
Would you require the candidates to meet you for in person interview? No
Is Skype/WebEx interview,OK? Teams interview is OK
Is this onsite/remote position: Hybrid
If onsite, will you be considering relocation candidates: NA
Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes
Job Description:
We are looking for a senior engineer with 10+ years of experience in event streaming, Kafka platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
The candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud, including cluster design, topic management, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, RBAC, ACLs, quotas, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
The role requires experience deploying and operating Confluent Platform on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD automation.
Experience with Ansible-based Confluent Platform installation, upgrade automation, and configuration management will be highly valuable.
The candidate should have practical knowledge of Kafka security setup, including SASL_SSL, mTLS, certificates, secrets, service accounts, identity pools, API keys, RBAC, ACLs, and secure connectivity patterns.
Responsibilities include Kafka platform setup, environment standardization, cluster upgrades, certificate renewal, ZooKeeper to KRaft migration planning/execution, disaster recovery support, capacity planning, incident resolution, and production readiness reviews.
The candidate should be able to design monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, JMX exporter, OpenTelemetry, Confluent Metrics API, Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms.
Cloud knowledge across Azure, AWS, or GCP is expected, especially around networking, private endpoints, DNS, firewall rules, IAM, key vaults/secrets, storage, and secure access.
Experience with Terraform for Confluent Cloud provisioning, including environments, clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, identity pools, RBAC/ACLs, networking, and access automation, is desirable.
Please provide the TOP skills, and the years of experience that you ll consider:
1. Confluent Kafka
2. Cloud Infrastructure
3. Docker
Project Code: Confluent PS Takeover and GTM