Description

You will administer, secure, and scale high-availability Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments, driving automation across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Automate Kafka installation, broker configuration, upgrades, and patching using Ansible and Python scripts.
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform and manage deployments via GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Jenkins).
• Manage Kafka topics, partitions, and replication factors within Kubernetes (OpenShift) to maintain high availability.
• Monitor broker health, consumer lag, and producer latency using Prometheus and Grafana for proactive tuning.
• Implement and automate security protocols, including SASL/SSL, RBAC, and ACLs.

Required Skills

• 5+ years experience with Apache Kafka administration.
• Expertise in automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Strong experience managing Kubernetes environments, specifically OpenShift.
• Proficiency with monitoring stacks: Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience securing Kafka using TLS, Kerberos, SASL, and RBAC.
• Familiarity with JMX for performance monitoring.
• Experience managing Kafka Connectors and Schema Registry.

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute