Senior Confluent Kafka Administrator

Role: Senior Confluent Kafka Administrator

Location: Hyderabad & Pune

Work mode: Hybrid

Experience: 5 to 8 years

We are looking for a Senior Confluent Kafka Administrator with 5-8 years of experience in managing and supporting Kafka/Confluent platforms in enterprise environments. The candidate should have strong experience in Kafka cluster administration, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, security, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and manage Confluent Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, and replication.
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and maintenance of Kafka environments.
• Monitor Kafka using Confluent Control Center, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot performance, connectivity, replication, and consumer/producer issues.
• Manage Kafka security including SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs, and authentication/authorization.
• Handle Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams components.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery activities.
• Provide L2/L3 production support and participate in incident/problem management.

Required Skills: Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Kafka Administration, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Linux, Monitoring, Security (SSL/SASL/ACL), Performance Tuning, and Production Support.