Role & responsibilities

Kafka Administrator / AKS Platform EngineerWe are looking for an experienced Kafka Administrator / Platform Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Kafka Administration, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Linux Administration. The candidate will be responsible for managing Kafka platforms, supporting AKS environments, troubleshooting production issues, and ensuring platform reliability. Must-Have Skills

- 4+ years of experience in Kafka Administration / Platform Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka
- Experience managing Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and retention
- Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Solid Linux/Unix Administration skills
- Production support and troubleshooting experience
- Experience with Kafka monitoring and performance troubleshooting
- Knowledge of incident management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Key Responsibilities

- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Kafka clusters.
- Manage Kafka brokers,



topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, and retention policies.
- Monitor Kafka clusters and troubleshoot broker, producer, consumer, and connectivity issues.
- Perform Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, upgrades, and patching.
- Deploy and support Kafka-related workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Troubleshoot AKS pods, deployments, services, configurations, and resource-related issues.
- Administer Linux servers and troubleshoot CPU, memory, disk, network, and process-related issues.
- Support Kafka and AKS environments in production.
- Monitor platform health and respond to production incidents.
- Perform RCA for recurring Kafka, Linux, and AKS issues.
- Work with Cloud, DevOps, Application, and Infrastructure teams to resolve platform issues.
- Maintain platform availability, stability, and reliability.

📌 Kafka Administrator (Hyderabad)
🏢 Radiant Digital Solutions
📍 Hyderabad