Senior Kafka Infrastructure Engineer

About the job
Sarvaha would like to welcome Kafka Platform Engineer (or a seasoned backend engineer aspiring to move into platform architecture) with a minimum of 4 years of solid experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms.
Sarvaha is a niche software development company that works with some of the best funded startups and established companies across the globe. Please visit our website at

What Youll Do
- Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and StatefulSets
- Tune Kafka for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC
- Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter
- Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry
- Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) and container workflows

You Bring
- BE/BTech/ MTech (CS/IT or MCA), with an emphasis in Software Engineering
- Strong foundation in the Apache Kafka ecosystem and internals (brokers, ZooKeeper/ KRaft, partitions, storage)
- Proficient in Kafka setup, tuning, scaling, and topic/partition management
- Skilled in managing Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and GitOps workflows
- Monitoring expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX
- Experience on EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred
- Strong troubleshooting and incident response mindset
- High sense of ownership and automation-first thinking
- Excellent collaboration with SREs, developers, and platform teams
- Clear communicator, documentation-driven, and eager to mentor/share knowledge.