Kafka Engineer with IRS MBI Clearance

Team: IT

Location: India

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka environments to support reliable messaging and event streaming solutions.
• Create, configure, and manage Kafka topics, producers, consumers, connectors, and related platform components.
• Monitor Kafka clusters, identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot production issues, and implement timely resolutions.
• Perform system upgrades, configuration changes, capacity planning, and performance tuning to ensure platform stability and scalability.
• Collaborate with software developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to support application integration and event-driven architectures.
• Implement operational best practices for Kafka administration, monitoring, logging, and system reliability.
• Ensure all platform activities comply with security requirements, operational procedures, and change management processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance platform performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience working with Apache Kafka in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Kafka administration, configuration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed messaging and event streaming platforms.
• Proficiency with Linux system administration and experience using Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex production issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional technical teams.
• Active IRS MBI Clearance is required.
• Previous experience supporting IRS or other federal government projects is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunity.
• Opportunity to contribute to high-impact government and public sector technology initiatives.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale Kafka infrastructure and event-driven architecture.
• Collaborative environment working alongside experienced engineering and infrastructure professionals.
• Opportunity to strengthen expertise in distributed systems, messaging platforms, and production operations.
• Long-term role supporting mission-critical technology environments.