Kafka Admin

Kafka Administrator (Senior Kafka Platform Engineer) 

Jersey City, NJ / Dallas, TX - Onsite 

Rate: $55/Hr

Experience: 10+ years

In person Interview in Jersey City, NJ / Dallas, TX is Mandatory

Role Descriptions:

• A Kafka Administrator is responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining and monitoring Apache Kafka clusters to ensure high availability, security and optimal performance.
• They manage topics, partitions and replication troubleshoot issues implement security protocols (SSLTLS, SASL, ACLs) and automate tasks using tools like Ansible or Terraform.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Cluster Management Installing, configuring and upgrading Kafka brokers, Zookeeper KRaft, Connect and Schema Registry.
• Performance Tuning Monitoring, Monitoring cluster health, broker performance, consumer lag and producer latency using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to ensure high throughput.
• Topic Partition Management Managing topic configuration, partitioning strategies, replication factors and data retention policies.
• Security Access Control implementing security measures such as SSLTLS encryption, Kerberos authentication and ACLs (Access Control Lists) to secure data.
• Trouble shooting Support providing 3rd-level support to resolve broker| producer or consumer issues and performing root cause analysis (RCA).
• Disaster Recovery High Availability Designing and managing replication strategies across regions for disaster recovery and ensuring broker redundancy.
• Automation Developing scripts to automate routine tasks such as provisioning and monitoring using Ansible, Puppet or Kubernetes.
• Collaboration working with developers to design data pipelines, optimize producer consumer configurations and on-board new applications.

Required Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of Apache Kafka Confluent Kafka.
• Strong Linux system administration skills.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, and JMX).
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash or Java.
• Experience with containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift).