Position: Kafka Administrator

Location: Alpharetta, GA (OR) New York City, NY (Hybrid: 3 days a week)

Experience: 10 Years

Work type: C2C

PETADATA is currently looking to hire for the position of Kafka Administrator for one of their clients.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning, and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.
• Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance, and overall health of the cluster.
• Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as storage infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of Kafka with other systems.
• Ability to closely collaborate with product managers and lead engineers.
• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures.
• Create topics, set up redundancy clusters, and deploy monitoring tools, and alerts.
• Develop and maintain shell scripts for the automation of Kafka tasks.
• Proactively monitor and set up an alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster.
• Implement security measures to protect Kafka clusters from potential threats.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support.

Required Skills:

• 10 years of solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications.
• Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka architecture and its components.
• Experience in setting up monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Hands-on experience in Shell Scripting (e.g. Bash).
• Knowledge of Kafka security protocols and best practices.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor's/ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

We offer a professional work environment and are given every opportunity to grow in the Information technology world.

Note:

Candidates are required to attend Phone/Video Call / In-person interviews and after Selection of candidate (He/She) should go through all background checks on Education and Experience.

Please email your resume to: swaroopb@petadata.co

After carefully reviewing your experience and skills one of our HR team members will contact you on the next steps.