100% Remote || Kafka Administrator || Long Term Contract

Job Title- Core Kafka Administrator (MS Azure)

Location: 100% Remote

Type: : Long Term Contract

 

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

Extensive System admin and Cloud engineering experience

• Cluster Management: Provisioning, configuring, and scaling Kafka clusters.

• Azure Integration: Bridging Kafka with native services- eg. configure Azure Event Hubs (Kafka Surface) or manage data ingestion into Azure Data Lake Storage

• Performance Tuning: Optimizing broker properties, partition strategies, and JVM settings to meet latency and SLAs requirements.

• Security and compliance of kafka clusters/ services

• Automating the deployment of streaming infrastructure using Terraform to ensure environment parity across Dev, UAT, and Production.

 

Key responsibilities:

• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of partition leadership, replication factors, ISR (In-Sync Replicas), and “exactly-once” processing semantics.

• Storage Optimization: Experience managing Azure Managed Disks (Premium SSDs) for Kafka brokers to balance IOPS and cost.

• Disaster Recovery: Setting up multi-region clusters using Cluster Linking or MirrorMaker 2 to ensure high availability across Azure Regions.

• Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose complex issues like “rebalance storms,” consumer lag spikes, and disk pressure in a distributed environment.

 

 

 

Your sincerely,
Ajay Sharma | Sr. Technical Recruiter.
Net2Source Inc.
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