Terraform Administrator Kafka/ Confluent Cloud

Our Client, an IT Services and Consultant company, is looking for a Terraform Administrator –Kafka/ Confluent Cloud for their Atlanta, GA / Birmingham, AL / Remote location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Terraform Administration and Infrastructure as Code - Primary
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Terraform configurations and reusable modules.
• Build standardized Terraform modules for provisioning infrastructure, middleware, and platform services.
• Manage Terraform state, remote backends, state locking, workspaces, providers, variables, outputs, and module dependencies.
• Implement appropriate strategies for separating development, QA, staging, and production Terraform environments.
• Manage Terraform provider versions and module versioning to ensure predictable deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code standards covering:
• Naming conventions
• Module structure
• State management
• Version control
• Secrets management
• Code reviews
• Release management
• Troubleshoot Terraform issues involving:
• State drift
• Resource dependencies
• Provider failures
• State conflicts
• Imports
• Lifecycle configuration
• Failed or partial deployments
• Perform Terraform state operations such as terraform import, state mv, state rm, and state recovery when required.
• Integrate Terraform with enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows.
• Implement Terraform validation, security scanning, plan review, and approval processes before production deployments.
• Support upgrades of Terraform versions, providers, and reusable modules.
• Identify manually provisioned resources and transition them toward Infrastructure as Code management.
• Establish controls to prevent unauthorized infrastructure changes and configuration drift.
• Confluent Kafka Platform Management - Secondary:
• Use Terraform to provision and manage Confluent Cloud and/or Confluent Platform resources.
• Provision and maintain:
• Kafka clusters
• Kafka topics
• Service accounts
• API keys
• Schema Registry
• Kafka security and access configurations
• Maintain reusable Terraform modules for standardized Kafka resource provisioning.
• Support both production and non-production Kafka environments.
• Implement and support Kafka security controls including:
• RBAC
• ACLs
• TLS
• Service accounts
• API key management
• Troubleshoot Terraform provisioning failures involving Confluent resources.
• Understand Kafka fundamentals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, producers, consumers, retention, and offsets.
• Assist Kafka/platform teams with environment configuration, access provisioning, and operational support.
• Confluent Kafka Connect Administration:
• Deploy and administer Kafka Connect source and sink connectors.
• Work closely with Mainframe and IBM MQ teams supporting integration between IBM MQ and Kafka.
• Support Confluent IBM MQ Source and Sink Connectors, including:
• Deployment
• Configuration
• Maintenance
• Version upgrades
• Troubleshooting
• Operational support
• Diagnose connector failures, failed tasks, authentication issues, serialization errors, connectivity problems, and performance bottlenecks.
• Troubleshoot common Kafka Connect conditions such as:
• Connector in FAILED state
• Task failures
• Repeated connector restarts
• Offset-related issues
• Authentication/authorization errors
• TLS/certificate failures
• Schema compatibility issues
• Throughput and latency degradation
• Coordinate with Kafka, Mainframe, network, security, and application teams during production incidents.
• CI/CD and Automation:
• Integrate Terraform deployments with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent enterprise CI/CD tooling.
• Develop automated workflows for:
• Terraform fmt
• Terraform validate
• Terraform plan
• Security/policy validation
• Approval gates
• Terraform apply
• Implement Git branching, pull/merge request reviews, and controlled production deployments.
• Automate repetitive platform administration and infrastructure provisioning activities.
• Maintain clear rollback and recovery procedures for failed infrastructure deployments.

• Years of Experience:   12.00 Years of Experience

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program