Kafka Administrator

Key Responsibilities:

• Set up, configure, and administer on-premise Kafka clusters.
• Design and define Kafka architecture, implementation standards, and best practices.
• Manage Kafka ecosystem components: Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, KSQL, REST Proxy, Control Center.
• Create and manage topics, partitions, replication, and redundancy setups.
• Ensure high availability, performance tuning, and benchmarking of Kafka clusters.
• Implement monitoring and alerting using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Automate deployments using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab.
• Implement access control, Kerberos & SSL security configurations, and compliance strategies.
• Develop producer/consumer stubs for multi-platform integration.
• Participate in capacity planning, architecture discussions, and troubleshooting activities.
• Mentor team members and support 24/7 rotational operations.