Job Title: Kafka Admin

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Interview Mode: Video

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Apache Kafka Administration

Kafka Cluster Installation, Configuration, and Management

Topic, Partition, and Replication Management

Kafka Broker Administration and Performance Tuning

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Consumer Group Management

Kafka Security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs)

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Configuration

Kafka Monitoring and Alerting

Linux/Unix Administration

Shell Scripting (Bash) and/or Python Scripting

Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis of Kafka Production Issues

Capacity Planning and Cluster Scaling

Log Analysis and Performance Optimization

Experience with Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog)

Understanding of Distributed Systems and Event-Driven Architecture

Production Support and Incident Management

Kafka Upgrades, Patching, and Maintenance Activities

Roles & Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across Development, Testing, UAT, and Production environments.

Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, and consumer groups to ensure platform stability and performance.

Monitor Kafka cluster health, availability, capacity, and resource utilization using enterprise monitoring tools.

Perform Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, and cluster scaling activities to support growing business workloads.

Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka infrastructure, messaging, connectivity, and performance-related issues.

Configure and manage Kafka security controls including SSL/TLS, SASL authentication, ACLs, and encryption standards.

Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry,



and other ecosystem components required for data integration.

Implement and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Kafka platforms.

Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migration, and platform maintenance activities with minimal business impact.

Collaborate with application, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to onboard and support Kafka-based applications.

Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, architecture documentation, and support guides.

Configure and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management processes for Kafka environments.

Support production deployments, release activities, and setting readiness assessments.

Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures to improve platform reliability.

Automate administrative and operational tasks using Shell scripting, Python, or other automation tools.

Ensure platform compliance with organizational security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Participate in on-call support and provide timely resolution for critical production issues.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance Kafka platform performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Teamwork

Willingness to learn

Key Words to search in Resume

Apache Kafka, Kafka Cluster Management, Kafka Connect, Confluent Platform, Kafka Security (SSL/SASL/ACL), Linux/Unix Administration, Kafka Performance Tuning

Kind Regards,

Simran Kaur

Sr, US IT Recruiter | Cenicor Technologies Inc.

Phone: (510)-956-8882

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.cenicortech.com

5941 81st PL N, Pinellas Park, FL 33781

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