We are looking for a Kafka Administrator with 4+ years of experience in managing and supporting Apache Kafka environments. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Kafka cluster administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, upgrades, and production support.
Required Skills
Strong experience in Apache Kafka Administration
Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR and troubleshooting
Kafka monitoring, performance tuning, and production support
Knowledge of Kafka security – SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs
Robust Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting
Valuable exposure to Microsoft Azure
Working experience on AKS.
Confluent Kafka / Kafka Connect / Schema Registry
Prometheus / Grafana
Shell/Python scripting
Positive communication and problem-solving skills
Good to Have:
AWS MSK
Apache Flink
Docker / Kubernetes / Helm