Kafka Support Engineer

Hi

We at Pineswift Technologies, are willing to hire a Kafka Support Engineer. Below are the details:

Required Skills & Experience For Role

• Basic understanding of OpenShift basics (pods, deployments, services, routes/ingress, namespaces, logs, events).
• Solid Understanding of Kafka operations: topics, partitions, producers/consumers, offsets, consumer groups.
• Basic Understanding of ActiveMQ JMS Address/Queue, Address settings (DLQ, expiry queue, redelivery delay)
• Familiar with Strimzi/AMQ Streams CRs (Kafka, KafkaTopic, KafkaUser) and Operator lifecycle.
• Proficiency with CLI tools: oc, kubectl, Kafka CLI, AMQ CLI ,reading pod logs and events.
• Kafka and AMQ Console Hands-on.
• Understanding of monitoring & alerting workflows, ticket lifecycle, SLAs.
• Strong communication, documentation, and shift-handover discipline.
• Strong troubleshooting for ISR/URP, leader election, rebalance, lag, and broker/storage/network issues.
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Bridge, and connector operations, Kafka Mirror
• Security: TLS/mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth/OIDC (Keycloak), cert rotation, RBAC, network policies.
• Lead complex incident resolution (broker instability, partition reassignments, consumer lag spikes, connectivity/auth failures).
• Perform RCA, impact analysis, and preventive actions.
• Tune broker/topic configs (retention, cleanup policy, partitions, replication factors).
• Plan and execute capacity upgrades, scaling, and storage adjustments.
• Manage AMQ Streams/Strimzi versions, CRD updates, rolling upgrades of Kafka components; validate post-change health.
• Observability: Designing Prometheus alerts, Grafana dashboards, log pipelines (EFK/Loki), capacity/performance baselining.