Kafka Admin (F2F Interview - Mumbai)

Note: F2F Interview at CBD Belapur, Mumbai on 21st Mar(Saturday)

About the Company

We are currently hiring for our client Organization. The End Client is a renowned Banking Firm.

About the Role

We are hiring Kafka Administrators (L2/L3) to manage, monitor, and support enterprise Kafka clusters. The role involves troubleshooting, performance tuning, automation, and ensuring high availability of Kafka environments. Since its for a Bank work Mode is All 5 days in Office along with 4th Saturday being working.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and administer multi-node Confluent Kafka clusters ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Manage Kafka Connect (Source & Sink) for efficient data streaming across systems.
• Implement and maintain Kafka security features including SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACL configurations.
• Automate Kafka cluster operations and topic/user provisioning using Ansible and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab).
• Monitor and optimize Kafka performance using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Confluent Control Center (C3).
• Plan and execute cluster upgrades, patch management, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Provide 24/7 production support, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with Confluent Support to resolve incidents.
• Support the integration of producer/consumer applications and ensure proper consumer rebalancing.
• Manage schema registry, Kafka log files, and Zookeeper cluster configurations.
• Work closely with DevOps and cloud teams for container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud provisioning (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Manage AWS services such as MSK, EC2, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, EKS, and Opensearch.

Qualifications

• Education: BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech/MCA
• Experience: 312 yrs

Required Skills

• Kafka Administration
• Performance Tuning
• Automation
• High Availability

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Confluent Kafka
• Knowledge of AWS services
• Container orchestration experience

Work Mode & Location

Location: CBD Belapur, Mumbai

Work Mode: All 5 days and 4th Saturday