Job Title: Kafka Administrator (L2 Support)
Experience: 5-10 Years
Location: Hyderabad & Bengaluru
Employment Type: Full time
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Kafka Administrator (Tier-2 Support) to join our Platform Engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Apache Kafka Administration, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and Linux Administration. The role involves managing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Kafka clusters in a highly available production environment while providing L2 operational support.
Key Responsibilities
• Administer, maintain, and support Apache Kafka clusters in production environments.
• Provide Tier-2 operational support, incident resolution, and problem management for Kafka platforms.
• Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance, capacity, and availability.
• Perform Kafka broker provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning activities.
• Troubleshoot issues related to Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and replication.
• Manage Kafka security including SSL, SASL, ACLs,



and authentication mechanisms.
• Support Kafka deployments on Kubernetes platforms.
• Work with AWS services to support and optimize cloud-based Kafka infrastructure.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux servers hosting Kafka workloads.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
• Participate in on-call support rotations and handle critical production incidents.
• Collaborate with application teams, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform reliability and scalability.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive monitoring of Kafka environments.

Required Skills
Kafka Administration
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka Administration.
• Experience managing large-scale Kafka clusters in production.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, and ZooKeeper/

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