Kafka Administrator

Position: KAFKA ADMINISTRATOR
Location: Bengaluru

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