KAFKA Administrator

🔍 Looking for Kafka Administrator || Need local to CA OR AZ ONLY
🚀 Role: Kafka Administrator with strong Messaging Queue (MQ) expertise
📍Location: Pleasanton, CA OR Phoenix, AZ
Duration: 12+months

Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Kafka Administrator with strong Messaging Queue (MQ) expertise to design, manage, and optimize distributed messaging systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, traditional MQ platforms, and real-time data streaming architectures.
Key Responsibilities
Install, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters in production environments
Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance tuning, and capacity planning
Manage topic configurations, partitions, replication, and retention policies
Implement Kafka security (SSL, SASL, ACLs)
Perform cluster upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting
Handle broker failures, partition rebalancing, and data recovery
Administer and support MQ systems such as:
IBM MQ / RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ
Configure queues, channels, listeners, and queue managers
Ensure high availability and fault tolerance across messaging systems
Work with DevOps teams to integrate Kafka/MQ into CI/CD pipelines
Automate deployments using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or scripts
Implement monitoring using tools like: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
Support data streaming use cases and real-time pipelines
Troubleshoot producer/consumer latency and throughput issues
Ensure data reliability and consistency across systems
Required Skills
Kafka Expertise
Strong experience with Apache Kafka Administration
Deep understanding of:
Brokers, Zookeeper/KRaft
Partitions, replication, ISR
Consumer groups and offsets