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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: Raju

Job Details:
Job title: Senior Kafka Devops 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: Onsite from day one
Is this a 100% remote role? NO
Vendor rate range: ***
Minimum years of experience required: 5-8 Years
Would you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview?: Video/Virtual Interview
Education Qualification required: BE

Must have skills:
Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies
Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator
Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis
Proficiency in automation/scripting
Monitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation
Experience with DR, multi-region design, and incident management
Proven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation

Good to Have Skills
Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration
Experience executing hardware refreshes or major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime

Detailed Job Description:
5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps;
4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.
We re seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform.
You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response.
Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross environment alignment.
Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.
Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).
Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.
Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.
Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.
Hardware refresh planning, migration/cutover strategy, monitoring, backup/restore and DR playbooks, knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.

Minimum years of experience: 5-8 years
Education: Bachelor's or Master of Engineering

Custom Fields:
Name: Intake Call Completed
Value: true

Name: Intake Call Requested
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.
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Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Automation, Benchmarking, Call Centers, Capacity Management, Cloud Computing, Consulting, Customer Retention/Renewal, Customer Support/Service, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Recovery, DevOps, Diversity Recruiting, Documentation, Finance, Financial Control, Fortune 500 Customers, Health Information Technology, High Availability, Incident Management, Incident Response, JMX (Java Management Extensions), Knowledge Transfer, Linux Operating System, Load Balancing, Migration Strategy, Performance Analysis, Performance Tuning/Optimization, REST (Representational State Transfer), Replication and Remote Mirroring, Right-Sizing, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Patches, System Migration, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), Web Services, Willing to Travel

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