Kafka Admin

Job Description:

• Join a team where reliable data movement powers real business outcomes
• In this role you ll help run and evolve a high availability streaming platform that enables real time integrations analytics and event driven applications across the organization
• You ll work closely with engineers platform teams and stakeholders to keep Kafka environments stable secure and scalable while continuously improving performance and operational excellence
• If you enjoy troubleshooting complex distributed systems automating repetitive tasks and building strong monitoring and governance practices this is a great opportunity to grow your impact
• You ll be encouraged to bring ideas collaborate openly and take ownership of platform health ensuring teams can confidently publish and consume data streams at scale

Key Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities
• Administer and support Kafka clusters ensuring high availability reliability and performance across environments
• Perform Kafka broker provisioning configuration upgrades patching and capacity planning aligned to platform standards
• Manage topics partitions replication factors retention policies quotas and ACLs based on application needs and governance guidelines
• Monitor cluster health and performance analyze metrics logs and proactively address bottlenecks latency throughput ISR issues
• Troubleshoot production incidents perform root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions
• Support Confluent components as applicable e
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• Schema Registry Kafka Connect and ensure smooth integration with client teams
• Implement and maintain security controls including authentication authorization and secure configurations for data in motion
• Automate operational tasks and standardize runbooks alerts and operational procedures to improve platform efficiency
• Collaborate with application teams on onboarding best practices and performance tuning for producers consumers
• Maintain documentation for architecture configurations operational processes and change management activities

Technical Requirements:

• Primary skills Technology Cloud Platform AWS Data Analytics Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Additional Responsibilities:

• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor s degree or equivalent in Engineering Computer Science IT BTech BE MCA MSc or similar
• 3 5 years of overall experience with at least 3 years in Kafka administration and operations
• Hands on exerience administering Apache Kafka clusters including configuration scaling and upgrades
• Working knowledge of Confluent platform components and operational practices
• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems and experience handling production support and incident management
• Familiarity with Linux fundamentals networking basics and log metric based monitoring for platform health
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience operating Confluent Platform in enterprise environments including Schema Registry and Kafka Connect administration
• Proven ability to tune Kafka performance broker configs partition strategy replication retention for high throughput workloads
• Experience implementing security best practices ACLs authentication authorization and aligning with governance requirements
• Exposure to automation and scripting to streamline Kafka operations and reduce manual effort
• Strong collaboration skills to guide producer consumer teams on onboarding standards and operational readiness
• Good to have skills
• Kafka Connect Schema Registry Prometheus Grafana

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Cloud Platform->AWS Data Analytics->Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka