What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kafka Admin position at Ampstek?
Job Title: Kafka Admin
Location: St louis, MO (onsite)
Must have:
MSK and zookeeper to Kraft Migration.
Kafka Platform Support Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).
Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.
Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.
Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.
Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking.
Partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing
Thanks& Regards
Robert
Robert@ampstek.com