Senior Confluent Kafka Administrator / Confluent Kafka Integration Engineer ---- Remote but need Locals to DC , MD , VA

Senior Confluent Kafka Administrator / Confluent Kafka Integration Engineer

Location - 100 % Remote

Duration : Long term Ongoing with no end date

Compensation*

Rate : $65/hr to $75/hr

*This is the targeted compensation range for this role per hour. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance; 401(k)

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms.

• 3+ years of hands-on administration experience with Confluent Kafka.

• Experience managing multi-environment Kafka deployments (Development, QA, Performance, DR, and Production).

• Experience with Kafka cluster sizing, broker management, partition strategy, replication, retention policies, and capacity planning.

• Experience in troubleshooting producer, consumer, broker, and cluster-level issues.

• Experience with Confluent Control Center, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB, and stream processing technologies.

• Experience implementing high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster replication strategies.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka security, including TLS, mTLS, RBAC, ACLs, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.

• Experience integrating Kafka with Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud platforms, observability tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, data contracts, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Preferred candidates with confluent certifications.