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/KRaft.
- Experience with Kafka performance tuning and troubleshooting.

AWS Cloud
- Experience with AWS services such as:
- EC2
- EKS
- VPC
- IAM
- CloudWatch
- S3
- Knowledge of cloud networking and security concepts.

Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster operations.
- Experience deploying and managing Kafka workloads on Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Helm charts, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, and Operators.

Linux Administration
- Solid experience administering Linux environments (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
- Expertise in shell scripting and system troubleshooting.
- Experience handling log analysis, performance monitoring, and OS tuning.

Preferred Skills
- Experience with Confluent Platform.
- Knowledge of Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and ksqlDB.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or Datadog.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5-10 years of overall IT experience.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Experience working in 24x7 production support environments.

📌 Kafka Admin - Tier 2 (Hyderabad)
🏢 Radiant Digital
📍 Hyderabad