Required Kafka Admin - NYC, NY
Adil Momento
Hi,
I hope you’re doing well,
Momento USA is a global technology consulting, talent acquisition, and creative development firm that addresses clients' most pressing needs and challenges. We are currently looking for a Kafka Admin - NYC, NY . Please let me know if you are interested.
Job Title: Kafka Admin
Location: NYC, NY (3 days onsite minimum)
Duration: 6 months
Job Summary:
The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, deploying, maintaining, and scaling Kafka clusters in mission-critical environments, while also supporting the Linux-based infrastructure that forms the foundation of our real-time data platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters in production environments.
- Perform Kafka upgrades and patching ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
- Administer security protocols and access controls to protect the platform.
- Monitor cluster health and performance using our established monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents such as broker outages, replication lag.
- Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
- Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth.
- Develop Kafka topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry, and optimize throughput and reliability.
- Manage a tune of Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Mirror Maker as needed for data pipelines.
- Ensure platform reliability and performance on enterprise-grade Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu).
- Automate Kafka provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
- Deep knowledge of Kafka ecosystem components like ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, KRaft (Kafka without ZooKeeper).
- Build custom Kafka tooling and dashboards for producers and consumers, monitor lag and health metrics.
- Work with engineering teams to onboard new Kafka use cases and ensure security and compliance standards.
- Perform root cause analysis and resolution of platform-level incidents and outages.
- Develop and maintain Linux shell scripts for automation of deployments, monitoring, and maintenance tasks.
Qualifications we seek in you!
Qualifications
- BE/B Tech/MCA
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications/ Skills
- Working experience with OpenShift Kubernetes Cloud services to deploy Kafka clusters using vendor provided helm charts & docker images
- Kafka Resiliency dc/dr setup & observability for Kafka nodes
- Data ingestion & streaming pipeline setup for other data platforms to Kafka & Kafka to data sources like Solr
- Five or more years of Kafka administration experience, ideally with Confluent Kafka
- Proficiency in Linux, Python, or Bash scripting
- Hands-on knowledge of Kafka monitoring tools and experience with security protocols.
Thanks,
Adil M
Sr. Technical Lead
Momento USA | Exceeding Customer Expectations…
Email: ad...@momentousa.com