Kafka Administrator - Jersey City, NJ or Dallas, TX (Onsite – Local Candidates Only)
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Job Title: Kafka Administrator
Location: Jersey City, NJ or Dallas, TX (Onsite – Local Candidates Only)
Duration: Contract
Interview: In-Person (Face-to-Face)
Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Kafka Administrator to manage, support, and optimize enterprise-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Kafka cluster administration, performance tuning, monitoring, security implementation, automation, and disaster recovery. This role requires close collaboration with development and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing event streaming platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, administer, and upgrade Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka clusters.
- Manage Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry.
- Configure and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, and retention policies.
- Monitor Kafka cluster health, broker performance, consumer lag, throughput, and latency using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX, or similar monitoring tools.
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive optimization of Kafka infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
- Troubleshoot Kafka broker, producer, and consumer issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and resolve production incidents.
- Design and maintain high availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Develop automation scripts and deployment processes using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, or Python.
- Support Kafka deployments in containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Collaborate with application development teams to onboard new applications, optimize producer and consumer configurations, and support event-driven architectures.
- Maintain operational documentation, deployment procedures, and best practices for Kafka platform management.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall IT experience with strong expertise in Kafka administration.
- Hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of Kafka architecture, brokers, topics, partitions, replication, ZooKeeper, and KRaft.
- Experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
- Strong Linux/Unix system administration skills.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and JMX.
- Experience implementing Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos, and ACLs.
- Proficiency in scripting using Python, Bash, or Java.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting large-scale, high-availability Kafka clusters.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Confluent Kafka or Apache Kafka certifications are a plus.
- Experience working in enterprise production environments with mission-critical applications.
Rohit Kumar (Sr.Technical Recruiter)
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