Job Description
Title: Senior Kafka Engineer
Work Location: Saint Louis, MO 63131
Duration: 12 months
Kafka Administration
Provide Level 2 and Level 3 production support.
Required Skills:
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Experience with Cloudera CDP, AWS MSK, Airflow, and Spark.
AWS, GCP, Kafka, or Kubernetes certifications.
Experience supporting large-scale production environments handling petabyte-scale data workloads.
Key Achievements Expected
Work Location: Saint Louis, MO 63131
Duration: 12 months
Kafka Administration
- Deploy, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters and AWS MSK environments.
- Monitor broker health, partitions, replication factors, and consumer lag.
- Perform capacity planning and cluster scaling activities.
- Manage Kafka security using SSL, SASL, ACLs, and encryption standards.
- Troubleshoot producer, consumer, and broker performance issues.
- Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cruise Control, and MirrorMaker implementations.
- AWS Cloud Administration
- Manage cloud infrastructure services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EBS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS Glue.
- Support AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), EMR, Lambda, and Airflow environments.
- Implement cloud security best practices and governance controls.
- Perform infrastructure provisioning and automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Monitor cloud resource utilization and optimize operational costs.
- DevOps & Automation
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
- Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Manage source control repositories and release processes.
- Implement monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch.
- Support containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop automation scripts using Python, Shell, or Bash.
- Operations & Support
Provide Level 2 and Level 3 production support.
- Participate in on-call support rotations and incident management activities.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.
- Create and maintain operational documentation and standard operating procedures.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Required Skills:
- Apache Kafka Administration
- KRAFT and MSK
- AWS Cloud Services
- Linux (RHEL/Rocky Linux)
- Shell Scripting and Python
- Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Terraform
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Monitoring Tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)
- Networking, Security, and High Availability Concepts
- Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
Experience with Cloudera CDP, AWS MSK, Airflow, and Spark.
AWS, GCP, Kafka, or Kubernetes certifications.
Experience supporting large-scale production environments handling petabyte-scale data workloads.
Key Achievements Expected
- Maintain platform availability above 99.9%.
- Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and accelerate troubleshooting and documentation.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks.
- Improve cluster performance and resource utilization.
- Ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data platform operations.
- Support enterprise data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads efficiently.
- Minimum years of experience
- 8-10 years
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Saint Louis, MO |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.
Skills
- AWS Lambdaunmatched
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)unmatched
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Ansibleunmatched
- Apache Kafkaunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Brokerageunmatched
- Capacity Managementunmatched
- Capacity and Performance Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- CruiseControlunmatched
- Cryptographyunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Dockerunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Documentation Standardsunmatched
- Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Gitunmatched
- GitHubunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Incident Managementunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)unmatched
- Jenkinsunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Network Securityunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Red Hat Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Replication and Remote Mirroringunmatched
- Resource Utilizationunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)unmatched
- SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security)unmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Security Monitoringunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Splunkunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
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