Urgent Hiring for Kafka Administrator C2c requirement

ROLE: Kafka Administrator (Automation & Kubernetes Focus)

LOCATION: Tampa, Florida / Jersey City, New Jersey (Local Only)

EXPERIENCE: 11+ Years

MODE: Day1 Onsite

JOB DESCRIPTION / REQUIRED SKILLS:

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

– Manage, secure, and scale high-availability Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments.

– Automate Kafka installation, broker configuration, upgrades, and patching using Ansible, Terraform, Shell scripting, and Python.

– Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps workflows using tools such as ArgoCD and Jenkins.

– Deploy and manage Confluent Platform using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) on Kubernetes/OpenShift.

– Manage KRaft mode, topics, partitions, and replication factors to ensure high availability.

– Monitor broker health, consumer lag, and producer latency using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX, and Confluent Control Center.

– Implement and automate security configurations including TLS, SASL/SSL, Kerberos, RBAC, and ACLs.

– Configure and manage Kafka Connect and Confluent Schema Registry.

– Set up and manage disaster recovery including Active-Passive clusters and Cluster Linking for multi-region replication.

– Perform network and performance tuning for Kafka environments.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka Administration

Kafka Automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps)

Kubernetes / OpenShift

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Kafka Cluster Management (KRaft, Topics, Partitions, Replication)

Kafka Connect & Schema Registry

Prometheus / Grafana Monitoring

Security (TLS, SASL, Kerberos, RBAC, ACLs)

Python / Shell Scripting

Linux Administration

Network Performance Tuning