Senior Kafka Infrastructure Engineer

About the job
Sarvaha would like to welcome Kafka Platform Engineer (or a seasoned backend engineer aspiring to move into platform architecture) with a minimum of 4 years of solid experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms.
Sarvaha is a niche software development company that works with some of the best funded startups and established companies across the globe. Please visit our website at

What Youll Do

• Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and StatefulSets
• Tune Kafka for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
• Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC
• Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter
• Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry
• Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) and container workflows

You Bring

• BE/BTech/ MTech (CS/IT or MCA), with an emphasis in Software Engineering
• Strong foundation in the Apache Kafka ecosystem and internals (brokers, ZooKeeper/ KRaft, partitions, storage)
• Proficient in Kafka setup, tuning, scaling, and topic/partition management
• Skilled in managing Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and GitOps workflows
• Monitoring expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX
• Experience on EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response mindset
• High sense of ownership and automation-first thinking
• Excellent collaboration with SREs, developers, and platform teams
• Clear communicator, documentation-driven, and eager to mentor/share knowledge.