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Kafka Admin

New York, NY · On-site

Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention. * Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth. * Develop Kafka ...

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Fort Mill, SC · Remote

$65 - $80/hr

Kafka Admin 100% Remote 6 Month Contract *NO C2C* *MUST WORK ON W2* **Confluent Kafka Admin with ... Patch, create Roadmaps, and assist junior engineers Build automation for install and platform ...

Palnar

Kafka Architect@ 100% Remote Role

$64.50 - $85/hr

Kafka Architect position is a leadership position in the organization that is responsible for ... They will work amongst our other key partners to assist in the development of robust cloud ...

Infosys Limited Digital

Kafka DevOps Engineer

Chandler, AZ · On-site

$52 - $71.25/hr

... Kafka Technical Skills 3 Technology|Open System|UNIX Technical Skills 4 Technology|Cloud Platform ... assist other similar projects Your contribution to the team: • A collaborative spirit and ...

Infosys

Kafka DevOps Engineer

Chandler, AZ · On-site

$52 - $71.25/hr

... assist other similar projects Your contribution to the team: • A collaborative spirit and ... Required Skill and Experience • Hands on experience with Kafka • Confluent Kafka experience ...

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Kafka Admin

Kafka Admin

Merican

New York, NY • On-site

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Posted 26 days ago

Job description

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global professional services firm specializing in digital transformation, business process management (BPM), analytics, and AI-driven solutions. The company partners with organizations to improve efficiency, transform operations, and drive business outcomes through a combination of process expertise, technology, and data insight.
Job Title: Kafka Admin
Location: New York City, NY
Duration: 6 months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybird
Job Summary:
  • The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and scaling Kafka clusters in mission-critical environments, while also supporting the Linux-based infrastructure that forms the foundation of our real-time data platform.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters in production environments.
  • Perform Kafka upgrades and patching ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
  • Administer security protocols and access controls to protect the platform.
  • Monitor cluster health and performance using our established monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents such as broker outages, replication lag.
  • Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
  • Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth.
  • Develop Kafka topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry, and optimize throughput and reliability.
  • Manage a tune of Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Mirror Maker as needed for data pipelines.
  • Ensure platform reliability and performance on enterprise-grade Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu).
  • Automate Kafka provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
  • Deep knowledge of Kafka ecosystem components like ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, KRaft (Kafka without ZooKeeper).
  • Build custom Kafka tooling and dashboards for producers and consumers, monitor lag and health metrics.
  • Work with engineering teams to onboard new Kafka use cases and ensure security and compliance standards.
  • Perform root cause analysis and resolution of platform-level incidents and outages.
  • Develop and maintain Linux shell scripts for automation of deployments, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.

Qualifications
  • BE/B Tech/MCA
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications/ Skills
  • Working experience with OpenShift Kubernetes Cloud services to deploy Kafka clusters using vendor provided helm charts & docker images
  • Kafka Resiliency dc/dr setup & observability for Kafka nodes
  • Data ingestion & streaming pipeline setup for other data platforms to Kafka & Kafka to data sources like Solr
  • Five or more years of Kafka administration experience, ideally with Confluent Kafka
  • Proficiency in Linux, Python, or Bash scripting
  • Hands-on knowledge of Kafka monitoring tools and experience with security protocols.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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Merican is a IT Service consulting firm, specialized in Digital adoption and Business automation. With our diverse collection of skilled and committed consultants, technology companies, businesses and digital experts, we provide our subject expertise and our unique client service approach, a best-in-class global model of delivery suited to the business demands of our clients. We ensure that we implement future-oriented solutions for our clients via investments in people, solutions, technologies, competencies and infrastructure.

Industry

It services

Company size

51 - 200 Employees

Headquarters location

Columbia , MD, US

Year founded

2020

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