We are looking for an experienced Kafka Administrator to join our team in Mumbai.

The ideal candidate will have 4 years of hands-on experience managing Kafka clusters, monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring seamless data streaming operations.

Position : Kafka Administrator

Location : Mumbai

Employment Type : Full-time (Permanent)

Experience : 4 Years

Key Responsibilities :

- Install, configure, and manage highly available Confluent Platform / Apache Kafka clusters (on-premises, cloud, and/or hybrid)

- Monitor cluster health and performance metrics, detect and troubleshoot issues, and perform capacity planning

- Implement and maintain security (SASL, SSL/TLS, Kerberos), ACLs, RBAC, and data encryption

- Automate Kafka operational tasks using Bash/Python/Ansible/Terraform and integrate with CI/CD pipelines

- Collaborate with development, data engineering, and DevOps teams to onboard new streaming use cases

- Perform upgrades, patching, disaster recovery, and ensure high availability

- Maintain documentation and provide 247 production support (rotational shifts)

Required Skills & Qualifications :

- Minimum 4 years experience in Kafka administration or Confluent Platform in production environments

- Strong understanding of Kafka internals brokers, partitions, offsets, replication, etc.

- Experience with Confluent components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Control Center, MirrorMaker, etc.

- Proficiency in Linux/Unix, networking, and scripting (Bash/Python)

- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, JMX, Control Center)

- Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift, AWS/Azure/GCP, and IaC (Ansible/Terraform) preferred

- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

- Certification such as Confluent Certified Administrator/Developer is an added advantage

If interested kindly apply along with below required details :

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