Role & responsibilities

We are looking for a Kafka Application Support Engineer with robust experience in Apache / confluent Kafka, intermediate Linux administration, SQL, and scripting.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Kafka-based applications and ensuring high availability and performance of the system.
Knowledge of Redis will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:
Provide L2/L3 support for Kafka-based applications and infrastructure
Monitor Kafka clusters, brokers, topics, partitions, and consumer lag
Troubleshoot production issues, including performance bottlenecks and data inconsistencies
Perform Kafka configuration changes (ISR, replication, retention, etc.) as needed
Work with development teams to resolve application-related issues
Manage and support Linux-based environments (logs, processes, disk usage, etc.)




Write and maintain shell/Python scripts for automation and operational tasks
Execute SQL queries for data validation, analysis, and troubleshooting
Support Redis caching layer, including monitoring and basic troubleshooting
Participate in on-call support and handle incident management
Ensure proper documentation of issues, resolutions, and procedures

Required Skills:
Robust hands-on experience with Apache / confluent Kafka (cluster management, troubleshooting)
Intermediate knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
Valuable experience with SQL (queries, joins, performance basics)
Understanding of Kafka concepts like ISR, partitions, replication, consumer groups
Experience with monitoring tools (e.g.Dynatrace.)
Experience with the Redis caching layer, including monitoring and basic troubleshooting

📌 Mindgate Solution Kafka Application Support Mumbai
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