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Job Title: Kafka Admin
Location: NYC, NY (3 days onsite)

Job Summary:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and scaling Kafka clusters in mission-critical environments, while also supporting the Linux-based infrastructure that forms the foundation of our real-time data platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters in production environments.
  • Perform Kafka upgrades and patching ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
  • Administer security protocols and access controls to protect the platform.
  • Monitor cluster health and performance using our established monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents such as broker outages, replication lag.
  • Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
  • Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth.
  • Develop Kafka topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry, and optimize throughput and reliability.
  • Manage a tune of Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Mirror Maker as needed for data pipelines.
  • Ensure platform reliability and performance on enterprise-grade Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu).
  • Automate Kafka provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
  • Deep knowledge of Kafka ecosystem components like ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, KRaft (Kafka without ZooKeeper).
  • Build custom Kafka tooling and dashboards for producers and consumers, monitor lag and health metrics.
  • Work with engineering teams to onboard new Kafka use cases and ensure security and compliance standards.
  • Perform root cause analysis and resolution of platform-level incidents and outages.
  • Develop and maintain Linux shell scripts for automation of deployments, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
Qualifications:
  • BE/B Tech/MCA
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications/ Skills:
  • Working experience with OpenShift Kubernetes Cloud services to deploy Kafka clusters using vendor provided helm charts & docker images
  • Kafka Resiliency dc/dr setup & observability for Kafka nodes
  • Data ingestion & streaming pipeline setup for other data platforms to Kafka & Kafka to data sources like Solr
  • Five or more years of Kafka administration experience, ideally with Confluent Kafka
  • Proficiency in Linux, Python, or Bash scripting
  • Hands-on knowledge of Kafka monitoring tools and experience with security protocols.
Vacancy posted 1 day ago
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