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Company Profile:
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Job Title: OSS Infrastructure & Apache Kafka- Senior Developer
Position: Senior Systems Engineer
Experience: 5+ yrs
Category: IT Infrastructure
Main location: Hyderabad -
Position ID: J0626-0615
Employment Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
Job Description:
Apache Kafka Architecture & Deployment
. Design and deploy multi-broker Apache Kafka clusters for high-throughput, low-latency financial messaging pipelines
. Implement geo-redundant and multi-datacenter Kafka topologies using MirrorMaker 2 or Confluent Replicator
. Configure KRaft mode (ZooKeeper-free) deployments and manage migration from ZooKeeper-based clusters
. Define and enforce topic partitioning strategies, replication factors, and retention policies aligned with data governance requirements
. Tune JVM heap settings, OS-level I/O parameters, and network buffers for optimal broker performance
Resiliency & High Availability
. Implement fault-tolerant cluster configurations with appropriate ISR (In-Sync Replica) thresholds and unclean leader election policies
. Design and test disaster recovery (DR) runbooks, including broker failure, rack failure, and full-datacenter failov
📌 OSS Infrastructure (Hyderabad)
🏢 CGI
📍 Hyderabad