Kafka Admin - Whippany NJ; Hybrid
Listed on 2026-07-24
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IT/Tech
IT Support, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Location: Whippany
Kafka Admin
Location:
Whippany NJ – Hybrid 3 Days/Week
Position Type:
Contract
US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only. No third-party agencies.
Experience with the Linux environments and Bash scripting. Experience with Kafka operations and administration. The individual will be asked to lead the triage sessions with multiple tenants. Must have ability to review client application configuration and architecture. Provide onboarding support to prospective tenants on 1-O-1 setting. Participate and lead regular engagement forum to interact with tenants and answer any questions. Individual will be part of L3 support team and expected to handle support activities during weekend and off business hours.
Experience with monitoring tools:
Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Cloud Watch, and others. Must have ability to query for patterns in log and dashboard querying (promQL). Experience with developer tools:
Git, Maven, Gradle. Must have experience in contributing to code repository to meet automation requirements (pull, push, merge, rebase, clone and other git essentials). Familiar working in an Agile structure (Scrum or Kanban) with project management tools:
Jira, Bit Bucket. Ability to produce quality documentation and diagrams. Regular activity will include creation/revision of Runbooks on Confluence Page.
Essential Skills/
Basic Qualifications:
All skills listed are deemed necessary:
Ability to breakdown complex problems using appropriate design patterns and best practices demonstrating a strong knowledge foundation and a sound approach to problem-solving. Ability to build automated pipelines that integrate and transport software through reliable, secure, and governed channels from conception to production. Ability to build a suite of real-time monitoring and automation software that encompass resilient and self-healing platform operations.
Ability to conduct effective triage and remediation of production incidents with accompanying customer service and support for all clients of the platform.
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