General Position Information

Reports Directly To (Title)

Director or Senior Director

Matrix Reports To (Title)

As applicable

Direct Reports

Individual contributor; no direct reports

Position Summary

The Data Platform Engineer - Streaming Platforms is responsible for the administration, reliability, security, and operational support of enterprise Apache Kafka environments. This role is intended for an experienced Kafka Administrator with 4-8 years of overall IT experience and hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka platforms. The engineer will install, configure, administer, monitor, troubleshoot, tune, and upgrade Kafka clusters that support business-critical real-time streaming workloads. The role works closely with application, data engineering, infrastructure, security, and production support teams to maintain reliable, secure, and highly available streaming services.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, and upgrade Apache Kafka clusters across enterprise environments.
• Monitor Kafka platform health, availability, capacity,



and performance; troubleshoot platform issues and implement performance-tuning recommendations.
• Create, configure, and manage Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, retention settings, and other cluster resources.
• Manage and troubleshoot producers, consumers, offsets, and consumer groups to support reliable message processing.
• Implement and maintain Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
• Support production Kafka environments, participate in incident troubleshooting, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with service restoration.
• Analyze Kafka, broker, operating-system, and application logs to identify and resolve production issues.
• Perform routine platform maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and operational health checks.
• Support high availability, replication, resiliency, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery requirements for streami

📌 Senior - Database Administrator (Hyderabad)
🏢 HCA Healthcare - India
📍 Hyderabad