Contractor - Enterprise Technology Systems

Location: Remote however the interviews must be completed at a campus.
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