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Kafka Admin/ Engineer

TekWissen LLC

  • New York, NY
  • 17 days ago
  • $40–$42

Highlights

Qualifications/ Skills Working experience with OpenShift Kubernetes Cloud services to deploy Kafka clusters using vendor provided helm charts & docker images. TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, NY
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$40–$42
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

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/ Engineer
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description
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.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



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