Educational Requirements

Bachelor of Engineering, BTech, BCA, BSc, MTech, MSc, MCA

Service Line

Data Analytics Unit

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Kafka Administrator to manage and maintain enterprise-level Apache Kafka clusters. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installation, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, and ensuring high availability of Kafka infrastructure in distributed environments.

- Kafka Cluster Administration: Install, configure, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters
- Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, and replication
- Perform cluster upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning
- Monitoring Performance Tuning: Monitor Kafka cluster health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center
- Optimize broker performance, throughput, and latency
- Tune configurations for producers and consumers
- Data Streaming Integration: Manage real-time data pipelines using Kafka
- Handle integration with: Spark, Hadoop, Flink
- Databases APIs: Support streaming use cases and event-driven architecture
- Security Governance: Implement authentication and authorization (SSL, SASL, Kerberos)
- Configure ACLs (Access Control Lists)




- Ensure secure data transmission and compliance
- Replication High Availability: Ensure fault tolerance and data replication across brokers
- Configure multi-cluster setups (MirrorMaker, Cluster Linking)
- Handle disaster recovery strategies
- Troubleshooting Support: Diagnose and fix issues like: Broker failures, Consumer lag, Performance bottlenecks; Analyze logs and perform root cause analysis
- Automation DevOps: Automate deployments using Ansible, Terraform, or scripts
- Manage CI/CD pipelines for Kafka environments
- Version control using Git
- Zookeeper / KRaft Management: Manage Zookeeper clusters (if applicable)
- Configure Kafka in KRaft mode (Zookeeper-less architecture)

Additional Responsibilities
- Experience with Confluent Platform
- Knowledge of Kubernetes (Kafka on K8s)
- Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines
- Certification in Kafka / Confluent (nice to have)

Technical and Qualified Requirements
- Primary skills: Kafka administration

Preferred Skills
- Domain: Healthcare; Administrative tools
- Technology: Integration; Confluent Kafka

📌 Kafka Admin (Hyderabad)
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