Kafka Administrator

Position: Kafka Administrator with Python

Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Notice Period: Immediate or serving and able to join within a month.

Preferred candidate profile

Must-Have Skills

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and production support.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, including brokers, controllers, topics, partitions, replicas, producers, consumers, and consumer groups.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka cluster administration and configuration.
• Strong experience troubleshooting Kafka issues in production environments.
• Good understanding of partitioning, replication, ISR, leader election, retention, consumer offsets, and consumer lag.
• Experience with Kafka monitoring, metrics, alerting, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience managing Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and broker configurations.
• Understanding of Kafka security, ACLs, authentication, authorization, and SSL/TLS.
• Experience with Python scripting for automation and operational tasks.
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments and command-line tools.
• Experience with Shell/Bash scripting.
• Experience with Git and version control practices.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of networking concepts relevant to Kafka, including TCP/IP, ports, DNS, and connectivity troubleshooting.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Kafka Connect and/or Kafka Streams.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka / Confluent Platform.
• Experience with ZooKeeper-based and/or KRaft-based Kafka environments.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing Kafka on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of cloud-managed Kafka services such as Amazon MSK, Confluent Cloud, or Azure Event Hubs.
• Understanding of Kafka disaster recovery, backup/restore, replication, and multi-cluster architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical Kafka environments.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and production support teams.