Job Requirements

Experience: 4–6 years

Required Skills

- Kafka Operations: Confluent Kafka ; cluster setup and maintenance.
- Cluster Management: High availability, cross-site replication,ZooKeeper.
- Schema Registry & Topic Governance: Confluent Schema Registry or equivalent.
- Monitoring: Prometheus JMX Exporter, Dynatrace Kafka plugins, Elastic.
- Security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC.
- Integration & APIs: Kafka REST API, connectors.

Key Concepts
- Event-driven architecture and distributed system principles.
- Performance tuning and throughput optimization.
- Disaster recovery strategies for Kafka clusters.
- Governance, schema evolution, and topic lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities
- Operate and scale Kafka clusters reliably.
- Ensure HA and cross-site replication.
- Implement governance, topic management, and secure access.
- Integrate and monitor Kafka metrics/logs into observability dashboards.
- Ensure proper ACLs and RBAC policies for producers/consumers
- Respond to Kafka-related incidents and outages

Work Experience 2-5Years

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