{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"80a00f4327a774963a922cc2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/80a00f4327a774963a922cc2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/80a00f4327a774963a922cc2","title":"Cloud Platform Developer","description":"ONLY USC/GC - W2 ROLEMust Have Skills:⦁ Must have deep, hands‐on experience running Kafka in large‐scale production environments, including cluster operations, upgrades, patches, and migrations.⦁ Should understand Kafka internals such as partitions, replication, retention/compaction, and rebalance strategies.o Kafka Administrationo Platform / SRE / DevOps Experienceo Kafka Ecosystem Toolso Linux + Networkingo Automation / Scriptingo Monitoring / Observabilityo Disaster RecoveryNice to Have Skills:⦁ AWS MSK / Apache Kafka Cloud: Experience with MSK operations and cloud‐aligned Kafka environments.⦁ Helpful for cross‐environment consistency between on‐prem and cloud.⦁ Hardware Refresh Experience: Prior work leading Kafka hardware refreshes or cluster rebuilds.Detailed Job Description:Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:We're seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on-prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response. Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross-environment alignment. Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.Kafka Platform Support Key Responsibilities⦁ Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).⦁ Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.⦁ Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.⦁ Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.⦁ Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking.⦁ Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.Contract Deliverables⦁ Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register⦁ Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks⦁ Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.⦁ Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.Minimum Qualifications⦁ 5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps; 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.⦁ Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies.⦁ Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator.⦁ Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis.⦁ Proficiency in automation/scripting.⦁ Monitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation.⦁ Experience with DR, multi-region design, and incident management.⦁ Proven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentationPreferred Qualifications⦁ Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration.⦁ Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.Minimum Years of Experience:⦁ 5+ yearsCertifications Needed:⦁ None","company":"Veriipro","rawCompany":"veriipro","city":"St Louis","state":"MO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-05-21T02:19:59.604Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Cloud Platform Developer","description":"ONLY USC/GC - W2 ROLEMust Have Skills:⦁ Must have deep, hands‐on experience running Kafka in large‐scale production environments, including cluster operations, upgrades, patches, and migrations.⦁ Should understand Kafka internals such as partitions, replication, retention/compaction, and rebalance strategies.o Kafka Administrationo Platform / SRE / DevOps Experienceo Kafka Ecosystem Toolso Linux + Networkingo Automation / Scriptingo Monitoring / Observabilityo Disaster RecoveryNice to Have Skills:⦁ AWS MSK / Apache Kafka Cloud: Experience with MSK operations and cloud‐aligned Kafka environments.⦁ Helpful for cross‐environment consistency between on‐prem and cloud.⦁ Hardware Refresh Experience: Prior work leading Kafka hardware refreshes or cluster rebuilds.Detailed Job Description:Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:We're seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. 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