Job Title: Kafka Admin

Location: Toronto, ON

Work Arrangement: Onsite (hybrid)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 12 Months

Domain: BFSI

Pay Rate: CAD 55-60/hour Incorporated

Application Deadline: Aug 14th, 2026

SKILLS REQUIRED

Mandatory Skills:

- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across Development, UAT, and Production environments.
- Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry .
- Perform Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, cluster scaling, and high availability (HA/DR) implementation.
- Configure and manage Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs, and encryption .
- Monitor Kafka environments using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or Datadog and troubleshoot production issues.
- Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, production support,



and root cause analysis (RCA) .
- Automate operational tasks using Linux/Unix, Shell (Bash), and Python scripting .
- Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Data Engineering, and Application teams to support Kafka-based solutions.
- Robust understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, incident management, and platform reliability .

EEOC Compliance: We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

DISCLAIMER

AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications. Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.

📌 Kafka Admin (Toronto)
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