Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Kafka Administrator to manage, maintain, monitor, and optimize Apache Kafka environments. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Kafka administration, cluster management, troubleshooting, performance tuning, security, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters in production and non-production environments.

- Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, and access controls.

- Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance, capacity, and availability.

- Perform Kafka cluster upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and maintenance activities.

- Troubleshoot issues related to brokers, producers, consumers, replication, lag, throughput, and connectivity.

- Monitor and resolve consumer lag, under-replicated partitions, ISR issues, broker failures, and disk utilization.

- Configure and manage Kafka replication and fault tolerance.

- Perform capacity planning and performance tuning for Kafka clusters.

- Manage Kafka security including SSL/TLS, SASL, authentication, and authorization/ACLs.

- Work with Kafka Connect and manage connectors for data integration.

- Manage and troubleshoot Schema Registry, where applicable.

- Configure monitoring and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center, or similar platforms.

- Automate Kafka administration and operational tasks using Shell scripting/Python/Ansible.





- Support disaster recovery, backup, and recovery activities.

- Collaborate with application, DevOps, infrastructure, and database teams to resolve production issues.

- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Mandatory Skills

- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka Administration.

- Good understanding of Kafka architecture and components.

- Experience managing Kafka Brokers, Topics, Partitions, Replication, ISR, and Consumer Groups.

- Experience troubleshooting Consumer Lag and Kafka cluster performance issues.

- Experience with Kafka monitoring and alerting.

- Good knowledge of Linux/Unix administration.

- Experience with Kafka security such as SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACLs.

- Knowledge of Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.

- Experience with production support and incident management.

- Good scripting knowledge using Shell/Python.

Valuable to Have

- Experience with Confluent Kafka / Confluent Platform.

- Experience with ZooKeeper and/or KRaft.

- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized Kafka deployments.

- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP cloud environments.

- Knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana.

- Experience with Ansible or other automation tools.

- Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.

- Experience with Kafka migration, cluster expansion, or version upgrades.

Pay: ₹300,000.00 - ₹900,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

📌 Kafka Admin (Mumbai)
🏢 Xeroadss
📍 Mumbai