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Qorali

Kafka Administrator

Qorali, Coppell, Texas, United States, 75019

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Base pay range $140,000.00/yr - $170,000.00/yr

We are looking for a highly skilled

Apache Kafka Administrator

to design, manage, and optimize enterprise-scale Kafka environments. You’ll be responsible for installations, upgrades, patching, migrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.

What You’ll Do

Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Apache Kafka & ecosystem components (Zookeeper/KRaft, Schema Registry, Connect, Control Center).

Design & operate

highly available, fault-tolerant Kafka clusters

(on-prem & cloud).

Perform

capacity planning & scalability assessments

to support business growth.

Tune Kafka brokers, producers, and consumers for maximum performance.

Implement

Cluster Linking, Replication, and Multi-Region Architectures .

Manage

RBAC, authentication, and authorization

for secure access.

Troubleshoot & resolve production-critical Kafka issues.

Automate cluster operations using

Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and Python .

Integrate monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK).

Partner with engineering teams for

application onboarding & migrations .

What We’re Looking For

3–5+ years of Kafka administration

(installations, upgrades, patching, migrations).

Strong skills in

cluster management, partitioning, replication, retention, monitoring .

Proficiency in

RBAC, TLS/SSL, Kerberos, OAuth .

Hands-on with

KRaft mode, Zookeeper, Confluent Kafka .

Strong scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible).

Experience with

cloud-based Kafka (AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs, GCP Pub/Sub) .

Familiarity with

Kubernetes & containerized Kafka deployments

is a plus.

Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and performance tuning expertise.

Nice to Have

Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) .

AWS Solutions Architect, CKAD, or CKA certifications .

Compensation

$140-170k

15% bonus

20+ days PTO

401k Matching

This is a hybrid role based in Dallas or Chicago.

Senior ity level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

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