About the job
Sarvaha would like to welcome Kafka Platform Engineer (or a seasoned backend engineer aspiring to move into platform architecture) with a minimum of 4 years of solid experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms.
Sarvaha is a niche software development company that works with some of the best funded startups and established companies across the globe. Please visit our website at

What Youll Do
Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and StatefulSets
Tune Kafka for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC
Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure
Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter
Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry
Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads
Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD,



Jenkins) and container workflows

You Bring
BE/BTech/ MTech (CS/IT or MCA), with an emphasis in Software Engineering
Robust foundation in the Apache Kafka ecosystem and internals (brokers, ZooKeeper/ KRaft, partitions, storage)
Proficient in Kafka setup, tuning, scaling, and topic/partition management
Skilled in managing Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform
Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and GitOps workflows
Monitoring expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX
Experience on EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred
Solid troubleshooting and incident response mindset
High sense of ownership and automation-first thinking
Excellent collaboration with SREs, developers, and platform teams
Transparent communicator, documentation-driven, and eager to mentor/share knowledge.

📌 Senior Kafka Infrastructure Engineer Pune
🏢 Sarvaha Systems
📍 Pune