Administer Apache Kafka platforms from Calgary, Alberta, working onsite five days weekly across on-premises, cloud, and ROSA environments. Apply cluster management and connector expertise daily.

This experienced Kafka Platform Administrator and Developer supports reliable, scalable, highly available event-driven integrations. The work combines platform engineering, development, operations, and monitoring across development, testing, staging, and production.

Responsibilities include Kafka Connect, Datadog, GitHub, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

Administer Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, and access controls

Deploy and maintain Kafka services across multiple environments

Develop, configure, and troubleshoot source and sink connectors

Monitor health, throughput, latency, lag,



and connector status

Provide L2/L3 support, incident management, and root cause analysis

Requirements

Eight-plus years in middleware, messaging, streaming, or integration

Strong Apache Kafka administration and development experience

Hands-on Kafka experience with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Experience with Kafka Connect, GitHub, Datadog, and Kafka CLI

Knowledge of security, Linux, networking, SQL, and serialization formats

Use Kafka administration, connector development, monitoring, and operational support skills in Calgary’s onsite enterprise workplace.

📌 Senior Kafka Platform Administrator (Winnipeg)
🏢 Tekfortune
📍 Winnipeg