Description

Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).

Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.

Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.

Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.

Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking.

Partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.

Minimum years of experience: 10+ years

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree