Company Description: IMCS Group is one of the fastest growing MWBE (Minority Woman Owned Enterprise) staffing firms in the U.S. We focus on bringing a Diversity Recruitment approach to Fortune 500 companies within North America and EMEA region contingent labor programs. IMCS Group excels in providing top talent in IT, Healthcare, Engineering, Finance, Light Industrial, Contact Center, and Clerical. We have offices in the US, Canada, Mexico, and India in which we can provide support to our clients.
Description: POC - Diksha
Job Details:
Job title: Kafka Administrator
Work Location with Zip code: Englewood, CO 80111
Duration of the project: 6 Months
This role requires any travel (Yes/No): NO
Please confirm if this would be onsite from day one OR Initial remote for 2-3 months, and then expect the candidate to work from the office OR 100% Remote: 100% WFO
Is this a 100% remote role? NO
Vendor rate range: *** - 60
Minimum years of experience required: 8-10 years
Would you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview? Yes
Education Qualification required: Bachelor s / Masters
Must have skills:
SRE, or DevOps 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.
Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker Confluent Replicator
Strong Linux fundamentals networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing)
Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration.
Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.
Good to Have Skills:
Kafka Administrator
Detailed Job Description:
o Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).
o Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.
o Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.
o Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.
o Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking.
o Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.
Contract Deliverables
Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register
Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks
Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.
Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.
Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years
Education: Bachelor s / Masters
The top 3 responsibilities would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute:
Coding
Debugging
Unit Testing
Custom Fields:
Name: Intake Call Requested
Value: true
Name: Intake Call Completed
Value: true
EEOC Disclaimer: IMCS Group is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. IMCS Group is committed to maintaining an inclusive workforce, where employees are hired, retained, compensated, and promoted based on their contributions to our Company.