Confluent Kafka Administrator

Job Title: Confluent Kafka Administrator
Location: Remote / Onsite
Experience: 7+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Confluent Kafka Administrator to manage and support enterprise-grade Kafka environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kafka clusters to ensure stability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Cluster Management

• Install, configure, and maintain Confluent Kafka clusters (on-premises or cloud).

• Manage Kafka brokers, Zookeepers, topics, partitions, replication, and retention policies.

• Perform version upgrades, patches, expansions, and cluster migrations.

Operations & Monitoring

• Monitor cluster performance, throughput, consumer lag, and system health.

• Automate operational tasks using scripting (Python/Bash).

• Implement monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar tools.

Troubleshooting & Optimization

• Diagnose and resolve production issues such as consumer lag, broker failures, replication delays, etc.

• Tune performance for brokers, topics, partitions, and producers/consumers.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and manage security features including RBAC, SSL/TLS, ACLs, Kerberos.

• Ensure compliance with internal governance and data protection standards.

Documentation & Support

• Maintain documentation for configurations, processes, and SOPs.

• Provide on-call support for high-priority incidents.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience with at least 3–4 years dedicated to Kafka administration.

• Strong hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka platform.

• Expertise in troubleshooting Kafka issues and optimizing performance.

• Experience with Linux-based systems (RHEL/Ubuntu).

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash).

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus).

• Knowledge of network, security, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka on cloud platforms (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs, Confluent Cloud).

• Knowledge of CI/CD and automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform).

• Experience with container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes).