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Kafka Engineer/ Admin

Fishers Island, NY 06390

Posted: 08/10/2026 Employment Type: Contract Job Number: 29045840 Pay Rate: 45-53 USD/Hour

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 we seek in you!

 

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.

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Lorena Daugherty

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Drew Anson

Chief Delivery Officer

Drew Anson is Chief Delivery Officer at Phaxis, a Workforce Solutions Company based in New York.

In this role, Drew leads the delivery and recruiting working closely with the leadership team to define a model that is efficient at supporting the firm s current needs and is scalable for future growth.

Drew is a seasoned executive with more than 13 years of Services & Recruitment experience. In that time, he has supported numerous Fortune 100/500/1000 organizations across industries by providing global workforce solutions, namely resources and thought leadership for large-scale projects, implementations, and managed services.

Prior to joining Phaxis predecessor firm Park Hudson in 2021, Drew spent three years at engineering technology and talent solutions firm, Collabera, as Director of Sales in North Carolina. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly eight years at Insight Global, most recently as Sales Manager of the Columbus, OH office.

He holds a degree from Central Michigan University in Sales & Marketing.

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