• 2–5 years in platform/SRE/DevOps; 2+ years dedicated to Kafka/Confluent admin in production.
• Robust hands on with Apache Kafka internals: brokers, controllers (KRaft), partitions/replication, log segments, compaction/retention.
• Confluent Platform: Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Control Center, Confluent REST APIs; or Confluent Cloud admin (settings, clusters, RBAC, audit logs, networking).
• Proficiency with Kafka CLI tools and AdminClient usage; deep knowledge of ACLs, quotas, transactions, idempotent producers, and exactly once semantics scenarios.
• Prometheus/Grafana, JMX exporters, alerting systems (Alertmanager etc).
• JVM tuning, Linux performance (NUMA, file descriptors, page cache, disk/RAID, XFS), and network tuning (TCP buffers, MTU, jumbo frames where applicable).
• Linux administration (systemd, journald, kernel params), virtualization/containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Cloud networking (VPC/VNET peering, transit gateways, PrivateLink/Private Service Connect), multi region architectures. Preferrable -




• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK), CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, major cloud certs (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Experience with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) for operator based deployments.
• Provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters (Apache Kafka KRaft or ZooKeeper-backed if legacy), Confluent Platform components (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, REST Proxy, Control Center), and Confluent Cloud resources.
• Ensure high availability (HA) and resilience across multi AZ/region deployments; manage partition replication, min.insync.replicas (ISR), and rack awareness.
• Implement and maintain client quotas, broker quotas, throttling, and back pressure strategies.
• Plan and execute upgrades/patching with zero/minimal downtime; maintain version currency against EOL and security advisories.
• Own backup/restore workflows for metadata (e.g., cluster configs), Schema Registry, and Connect configs
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