Experience
5 - 6 yrs
Job Location
Pune, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Kafka Administrator
Job Type
Not specified
Job Description
We are looking for a skilled and proactive Kafka Administrator to manage, monitor, and optimize our Apache Kafka infrastructure . You will play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security of Kafka clusters used across mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, upgrade, and manage Apache Kafka clusters (including Confluent Platform , if applicable).
- Monitor Kafka health and performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center , or similar.
- Manage Kafka topics, partitions, ACLs, brokers, and zookeeper nodes.
- Troubleshoot Kafka-related issues in production and non-production environments.
- Perform regular capacity planning, tuning, and optimization of Kafka clusters.
- Ensure fault tolerance and disaster recovery strategies are in place and tested.
- Automate Kafka operations using scripting tools (eg, Bash, Python) or Ansible/Terraform .
- Work closely with application developers and DevOps teams to support Kafka integrations and data pipelines.
- Implement Kafka security best practices including TLS encryption, authentication, and RBAC .
- Maintain clear documentation for Kafka infrastructure and processes.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science , Information Technology , or related field.
- Strong hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka (including Kafka Streams, Connect) in a production environment.
- Experience with Kafka monitoring , alerting, and performance tuning.
- Solid understanding of Linux operating systems , networking , and distributed systems .
- Familiarity with Kafka security mechanisms (SSL, SASL, Kerberos, RBAC).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (eg, Bash, Python ) for automation and tooling.
- Experience with Zookeeper management and maintenance.
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation tools (eg, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins ).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Confluent Kafka ecosystem and commercial support tools.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP especially using MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka) .
- Familiarity with schema registry , Kafka Connect , and Kafka REST Proxy .
- Certification in Kafka administration (eg, Confluent Certified Administrator ).
- Understanding of stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink , ksqlDB , or Apache Storm
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