Senior Apache NiFi Administrator

Job Title* Senior Apache NiFi Administrator
Work Location : Charlotte NC 28273 and St. Louis, MO (Either location 4 days work from office)
Contract duration 12 (in months)*

Job Details:
We are seeking a Senior Apache NiFi Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in Apache NiFi administration, AWS cloud administration and Terraform. This role will support enterprise data-flow platforms in production while also contributing to new environment builds, cloud modernization, and platform migration initiatives.
The ideal candidate brings deep operational experience supporting NiFi in complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on platform reliability, performance, security, high availability, and incident response. This individual must also have proven experience deploying and supporting migration efforts from on-prem infrastructure to cloud-based environments.

Key Responsibilities
• Administer, support, and maintain Apache NiFi clusters in enterprise production environments
• Manage NiFi flows, processors, queues, templates, parameter contexts, and controller services
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of NiFi platforms
• Monitor platform health, throughput, latency, failures, and overall system performance
• Troubleshoot flow failures, back-pressure issues, cluster instability, and node failures
• Manage NiFi security, including TLS/SSL, certificates, access controls, users, and policies
• Perform root cause analysis and lead resolution of platform incidents and production issues
• Ensure high availability, recoverability, node health, and data integrity across environments
• Participate in new environment builds
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and support procedures

Required Qualifications

Unix
• Strong hands-knowledge on administering and supporting Unix platforms

Apache NiFi Administration
• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Apache NiFi in enterprise environments
• Strong experience with NiFi clusters, flows, processors, queues, controller services, upgrades, and configuration management
• Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues, flow failures, back-pressure, and node-level incidents
• Experience managing NiFi security, including certificates, TLS/SSL, user access, and policy administration
• Strong knowledge of production support, platform monitoring, and incident response