KAFKA ADMINISTRATOR

Exp: 3+ years

Location: Bangalore/Pune

Shift timing: 1pm-9pm(Hybrid, Cab facility available)

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (administration & operations)
• Experience managing Kafka in both on-premises and cloud environments
• Solid expertise in Ansible and Terraform
• Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, ELK, etc.)
• Good understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex Kafka and infrastructure issues

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy and manage Kafka clusters on on-prem and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Configure, optimize, and maintain Kafka components, including:
• Kafka Brokers
• Zookeeper / KRaft
• Schema Registry
• Kafka Connect
• Automate provisioning and configuration of Kafka infrastructure using Ansible
• Build and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Create and maintain monitoring dashboards (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Implement alerting for cluster health, consumer lag, throughput, storage, latency, and broker performance
• Implement security best practices (authentication and authorization)
• Manage upgrades, patching, scaling, and disaster recovery processe