kafka admin

We are #Hiring: #kafka admin

Job Title : #kafka admin

Location : PAN India - (Hybrid)

Total Yrs. of Experience : 8 to 10 Years

️ Duration: Contract to Hire (C2H)

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners to 30 Days

Job Description*:

· Provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters (Apache Kafka KRaft or ZooKeeper-backed if legacy), Confluent Platform components (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, REST Proxy, Control Center), and Confluent Cloud resources.

· Ensure high availability (HA) and resilience across multi AZ/region deployments; manage partition replication, min.insync.replicas (ISR), and rack awareness.·

Implement and maintain client quotas, broker quotas, throttling, and back pressure strategies.

· Plan and execute upgrades/patching with zero/minimal downtime; maintain version currency against EOL and security advisories.·

Own backup/restore workflows for metadata (e.g., cluster configs), Schema Registry, and Connect configs

· Implement authentication (mTLS/SASL: SCRAM, OAUTHBEARER with IdP, or Kerberos if legacy) and authorization (Kafka ACLs, Confluent RBAC).·

Enforce encryption in transit and at rest, secret management (Vault/AKV/SSM), secure endpoint exposure, and private connectivity (VPC peering/PrivateLink).·

Govern topic naming conventions, retention policies, schema evolution rules (backward/fully compatible), and PII handling.

· Maintain audit trails (broker, Schema Registry, Control Center, Confluent Cloud audit logs) and compliance artifacts (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA/PCI as applicable).·

Coordinate vulnerability management (CVE watch, hardening baselines, CIS/STIG alignment).

· Deploy and maintain metrics pipelines (JMX Prometheus/Grafana), logs (ELK/OPensearch), and tracing (OpenTelemetry where applicable)·

Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs (produce/consume latency, end to end lag, broker CPU/heap/file handles, network throughput, GC pauses)·

· Analyze broker hotspots, partition skew, large message handling, compaction and retention settings, and tune GC/JVM for sustained throughput·

· Implement consumer lag monitoring and alerting with actionable runbooks to prevent data loss or SLA breaches.·

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Thanks & Regards

B.Siva Kumar

Technical Recruiter

Burgeon IT Services

Email Id:

Ph no: +91 9281038402

Website: www.burgeonits.com

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