Job Description:

- We are looking for an experienced Senior Kafka Administrator to lead the design implementation and management of highly scalable and resilient Kafka ecosystems
- This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems strong troubleshooting capabilities and the ability to architect enterprise grade streaming platforms
- You will play a key role in ensuring system reliability optimizing performance and guiding teams on best practices for real time data streaming

Key Responsibilities:

- Design deploy and manage large scale Kafka clusters across on premise and cloud environments
- Lead architecture decisions for high availability scalability and fault tolerance
- Monitor troubleshoot and optimize Kafka clusters to achieve optimal performance and uptime
- Handle capacity planning cluster sizing and performance tuning
- Manage advanced configurations including multi cluster replication MirrorMaker tiered storage and KRaft mode
- Configure and enforce security best practices SASL SSL TLS RBAC ACLs
- Implement robust backup disaster recovery and failover strategies
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design efficient event driven architectures and streaming pipelines
- Resolve complex production issues and lead root cause analysis RCA
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using tools like Terraform Ansible or scripts




- Lead Kafka upgrades migrations and platform enhancements with minimal downtime
- Establish and maintain monitoring alerting and logging frameworks
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership
- Create and maintain detailed documentation and operational runbooks

Technical Requirements:

- Primary skills Technology Java Apache
- 5 9 years of IT experience with at least 3 years in Kafka administration engineering
- Strong expertise in Apache Kafka internals brokers partitions replication ISR
- Deep understanding of distributed systems messaging frameworks and event streaming
- Experience with Kafka ecosystem tools Kafka Connect Kafka Streams Schema Registry
- Hands on experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK or Splunk
- Robust Linux Unix administration skills
- Experience with cloud platforms AWS MSK Azure Event Hubs Kafka GCP Pub Sub Kafka integration
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration Docker Kubernetes
- Expertise in scripting programming Python Bash or Java preferred
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to handle critical incidents

Additional Responsibilities:

- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science IT or a related field or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Java->Apache->Kafka

📌 Kafka Admin (India)
🏢 Infosys
📍 India