Senior Apache Nifi Administrator

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Apache NiFi Administrator. This is a contract position located in Charlotte NC (Preferred), St. Louis MO, or Denver, CO. Overview: We are seeking a Senior Apache NiFi Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in Apache NiFi administration, AWS cloud administration and Terraform. This role will support enterprise data-flow platforms in production while also contributing to new environment builds, cloud modernization, and platform migration initiatives. Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, support, and maintain Apache NiFi clusters in enterprise production environments
• Manage NiFi flows, processors, queues, templates, parameter contexts, and controller services
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of NiFi platforms
• Monitor platform health, throughput, latency, failures, and overall system performance
• Troubleshoot flow failures, back-pressure issues, cluster instability, and node failures
• Manage NiFi security, including TLS/SSL, certificates, access controls, users, and policies
• Perform root cause analysis and lead resolution of platform incidents and production issues
• Ensure high availability, recoverability, node health, and data integrity across environments
• Participate in new environment builds
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and support procedures

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Apache NiFi in enterprise environments
• Strong experience with NiFi clusters, flows, processors, queues, controller services, upgrades, and configuration management
• Experience managing NiFi security, including certificates, TLS/SSL, user access, and policy administration
• Strong knowledge of production support, platform monitoring, and incident response
• Unix: Strong hands-knowledge on administering and supporting Unix platforms
• Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues, flow failures, back-pressure, and node-level incidents

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Administration in enterprise production environments
• Experience supporting secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments
• Working knowledge of AWS services using Terraform to provision services such as EC2; S3; IAM; VPC; Security Groups; CloudWatch; EKS; EMR; Load Balancers/networking components
• Building AWS platform using Terraform

• Experience remediating security vulnerabilities, including CVE patching, OS patching, and library updates
• Experience using ticketing tools such as Jira, Cherwell, Ivanti or similar
• Ability to create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational support documentation
• Comfortable working in incident-driven, 24x7 production support environments
• Strong experience working with onshore and offshore teams

• Experience with Firewalls and database
• Experience with Kafka, APIs, and cloud storage integrations
• Experience with automation scripting, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure automation
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as: AWS CloudWatch; Splunk; Datadog