Role: Senior Kafka Administrator

Location: Mumbai / Bangalore / Chennai

Shift time: 6:00 PM IST - 3:00 AM IST

Job Summary:

Senior Kafka Solutions expert with 10+ years of overall IT industry experience, including 5 to 8 years of deep, hands-on Apache Kafka administration in large-scale production environments.

This role is not advisory-only. The ideal candidate must have owned and operated mission-critical, multi-cluster Kafka platforms, designed for high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant event streaming across hybrid and cloud-native ecosystems. Define and execute a 3 to 5 year strategic roadmap for Kafka and enterprise event-streaming platforms while remaining deeply technical in cluster architecture, platform reliability, performance tuning, and operational governance.

Core Responsibilities:

- Kafka Platform Architecture & Ownership
- Deep Kafka Administration & Operations (58 Years Required)
- Event-Driven Architecture Strategy
- DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
- Cloud & Kubernetes Integration
- Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering

Mandatory Experience:

- 10+ years of total IT industry experience in distributed systems, middleware, or platform engineering.
- 58 years of hands-on Kafka administration experience in production environments.
- Experience managing clusters with:10+ brokers,



High partition counts (10K+), TB–PB scale data retention
- Proven experience in performance tuning and incident response for high-throughput Kafka systems.
- Deep understanding of Kafka internals: Brokers, ZooKeeper & KRaft, Producers & Consumers, ISR mechanics, Partition leadership, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams

Technical Stack Expectations:

- Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka (core), Confluent Platform, MirrorMaker 2 / Cluster Linking, Kafka Connect ecosystem
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes (production-grade deployments), AWS and/or GCP, Infrastructure automation (Terraform / Ansible)
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub / GitLab, JIRA, Argo CD, CI/CD pipeline integration
- Scripting & Automation: Python, Shell scripting

Ideal Candidate Profile:

- Has operated Kafka as a platform owner, not just a consumer.
- Comfortable debugging issues at the broker JVM level.
- Solid background in distributed systems reliability engineering.
- Able to translate business throughput requirements into partitioning and replication strategies.
- Confident presenting Kafka strategy to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Regards

Ramkumar Subramani

Talent Acquisition - Atos

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