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Kafka Admin
Introduction: A Kafka Administrator is responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, and monitoring Apache Kafka clusters to ensure high availability, security, and optimal performance. They manage topics, partitions, and replication, troubleshoot issues, implement security protocols (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs), and automate tasks using tools like Ansible or Terraform.
Responsibilities:
Shristi Awasthi
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Kafka Admin
Introduction: A Kafka Administrator is responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, and monitoring Apache Kafka clusters to ensure high availability, security, and optimal performance. They manage topics, partitions, and replication, troubleshoot issues, implement security protocols (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs), and automate tasks using tools like Ansible or Terraform.
Responsibilities:
- Cluster Management: Installing, configuring, and upgrading Kafka brokers, Zookeeper, KRaft, Connect, and Schema Registry.
- Performance Tuning: Monitoring cluster health, broker performance, consumer lag, and producer latency using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to ensure high throughput.
- Topic Partition Management: Managing topic configuration, partitioning strategies, replication factors, and data retention policies.
- Security: Implementing security measures such as SSL/TLS encryption, Kerberos authentication, and ACLs (Access Control Lists) to secure data.
- Troubleshooting Support: Providing 3rd-level support to resolve broker, producer, or consumer issues and performing root cause analysis (RCA).
- Disaster Recovery & High Availability: Designing and managing replication strategies across regions for disaster recovery and ensuring broker redundancy.
- Automation: Developing scripts to automate routine tasks, such as provisioning and monitoring, using Ansible, Puppet, or Kubernetes.
- Collaboration: Working with developers to design data pipelines, optimize producer-consumer configurations, and onboard new applications.
- Strong Linux system administration skills.
- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, JMX).
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Java.
- Experience with containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
Shristi Awasthi
US IT Recruiter
PROLIM Global Corporation
Email: