Hi We at Pineswift Technologies, are willing to hire a Kafka Support Engineer.

Below are the details: Required Skills & Experience For Role Basic understanding of OpenShift basics (pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, namespaces, logs, events).

Solid Understanding of Kafka operations: topics, partitions, producers/consumers, offsets, consumer groups.

Basic Understanding of ActiveMQ JMS Address/Queue, Address settings (DLQ, expiry queue, redelivery delay) Familiar with Strimzi/AMQ Streams CRs (Kafka, KafkaTopic, KafkaUser) and Operator lifecycle.

Proficiency with CLI tools: oc, kubectl, Kafka CLI, AMQ CLI ,reading pod logs and events.

Kafka and AMQ Console Hands-on.

Understanding of monitoring & alerting workflows, ticket lifecycle, SLAs.

Strong communication, documentation, and shift-handover discipline.

Robust troubleshooting for ISR/URP, leader election, rebalance, lag, and broker/storage/network issues.





Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Bridge, and connector operations, Kafka Mirror

Security: TLS/mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth/OIDC (Keycloak), cert rotation, RBAC, network policies.

Lead complex incident resolution (broker instability, partition reassignments, consumer lag spikes, connectivity/auth failures). Perform RCA, impact analysis, and preventive actions.

Tune broker/topic configs (retention, cleanup policy, partitions, replication factors). Plan and execute capacity upgrades, scaling, and storage adjustments.

Manage AMQ Streams/Strimzi versions, CRD updates, rolling upgrades of Kafka components; validate post-change health.

Observability: Designing Prometheus alerts, Grafana dashboards, log pipelines (EFK/Loki), capacity/performance baselining.

📌 Kafka Support Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Pineswift Technologies
📍 Gurugram