Fwd: Only Local Candidate || Kafka Administrator – Automation || Jersey City, NJ || F2F Interview

[Ankith Chaudhary]

Job Title: Kafka Administrator – Automation
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite – 5 Days/Week)
Duration: 6 Months

Kafka Admin with Automation -

Only Local candidates as candidates will have to come for in person interview in NEW JERSEY   and onsite five days a week.

Note: New Jersey local candidates only

Job Overview

We are seeking a Kafka Administrator with strong automation experience to manage, secure, and scale high-availability Kafka clusters in both on-prem and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation tools to reduce manual operational work and improve system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Automate Kafka installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching using Ansible and Python scripts

Use Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and implement GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Jenkins) for CI/CD

Deploy and manage Confluent Platform using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) on Kubernetes / OpenShift

Manage Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, and KRaft mode

Monitor cluster health and performance using Prometheus, Grafana, and Confluent Control Center

Implement security protocols such as SASL, SSL, RBAC, ACLs, TLS, and Kerberos

Configure and manage Kafka Connectors (S3, JDBC, Snowflake, etc.)

Manage Schema Registry and data governance

Implement Disaster Recovery strategies including Active-Passive clusters and ClusterLink replication

Required Skills

6–8+ years of Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka administration

Strong experience with Automation Tools: Ansible, Terraform, GitOps

Scripting experience in Python / Shell

Experience with Kubernetes (OpenShift) and Linux

Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, JMX

Strong understanding of Kafka networking and performance tuning

Security protocols: TLS, Kerberos, SASL, RBAC