### Key Responsibilities

- Administer and maintain Apache Kafka clusters in production environments.
- Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replicas, consumer groups, and configurations.
- Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance, throughput, lag, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot issues related to brokers, producers, consumers, replication, and message delivery.
- Perform Kafka cluster upgrades, configuration changes, patching, and maintenance.
- Monitor and resolve Consumer Lag, Under Replication, ISR, and broker availability issues.
- Configure and manage Kafka Connect, producers, consumers, and connectors.
- Implement and manage Kafka security including SSL/TLS, SASL, authentication, and authorization/ACLs.
- Perform capacity planning and Kafka performance tuning.
- Manage partitioning and replication strategies for high availability and fault tolerance.
- Handle production incidents and perform root cause analysis (RCA).
- Create and maintain operational documentation, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Application,



Cloud, and Development teams for Kafka-related issues.
- Automate routine administration and monitoring activities using scripting/tools.

### Must-Have Skills

- 4+ years of hands-on experience in Kafka Administration.
- Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka architecture.
- Experience with Kafka Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Replication and Consumer Groups.
- Strong understanding of Producer/Consumer architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Consumer Lag, ISR, Under Replication, Leader/Follower concepts.
- Experience with Kafka security SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs.
- Experience with Kafka Connect and connectors.
- Positive knowledge of Linux/Unix administration.
- Strong SQL and database fundamentals.
- Experience with scripting using Shell/Python is preferred.
- Good troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

📌 Kafka Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kezan consulting
📍 Bengaluru