Job Details

- Role: Kafka Architect / Kafka Platform Lead

- Primary Skill: Apache Kafka

- Experience: 10+ Years (Kafka Architecture expertise mandatory)

- Location: Pan India (As per project requirement)

- Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days Preferred

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise Apache Kafka platforms.

- Architect scalable, secure, and highly available real-time streaming solutions.

- Design event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.

- Optimize Kafka performance, throughput, latency, and reliability.

- Define Kafka cluster architecture, topic strategy, partitioning, replication, and retention policies.

- Implement Kafka security using SSL, SASL, ACLs, and authentication mechanisms.

- Ensure platform scalability, monitoring, disaster recovery, and high availability.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects,



and engineering teams to define streaming strategies and best practices.

- Drive Kafka platform governance, operational excellence, and continuous improvements.

Required Skills

- Apache Kafka

- Kafka Architecture &
- Platform Design

- Event-Driven Architecture

- Real-Time Data Streaming

- Kafka Cluster Administration

- High Availability &

- Disaster Recovery

- Performance Tuning &

- Optimization

- Kafka Security (SSL, SASL, ACLs)

- Scalability &

- Capacity Planning

- Monitoring &

- Troubleshooting

- Distributed Systems

- Linux

- Agile Delivery

Preferred Skills

- Kafka Connect

- Kafka Streams

- Confluent Platform

- Schema Registry

- Kubernetes

- Docker

- CI/CD

- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- Microservices Architecture

📌 Kafka Architect / Kafka Platform Lead (Chennai)
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