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Kafka Operations Administrator

United States, Seattle 157500.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 21, 2026
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Job Responsibility

  • Deploy, configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SLA requirement
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to respond to incidents, alerts, and escalations
  • Triage, diagnose, and remediate production incidents
  • coordinate with stakeholders, developers and infrastructure teams
  • Implement automation for provisioning, scaling, server/data backups, and disaster recovery
  • Maintain monitoring, alerting thresholds, dashboards, and Kafka ecosystem health
  • Harden Kafka deployments: configure TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and vulnerability remediation
  • Perform routine maintenance: Kafka ecosystem upgrades (controllers, brokers, connect, and schema registry), rolling restarts, etc
  • Create and maintain runbooks, runbook automation, and post-incident reports
  • Optimize performance and resource utilization
  • benchmark and tune clusters
  • Support Kafka Connect/Schema Registry service and troubleshoot connector issues
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements for infrastructure and deployment automation

Requirements

  • Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience, managing, maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, fail-over and overall reliability
  • Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, Splunk , JMX metrics
  • Automation and orchestration experience: Terraform , Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
  • Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management
  • Experience in Production Support (ITIL processes followed) and participating in 24x7 on-call rotations , documenting incidents/postmortems
  • Experience in supporting JVM tuning, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics
  • Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Nice to have

  • Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experience
  • Knowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once)
  • Cloud-native security/compliance experience (IAM, VPC, KMS, Security Groups)
  • Certifications: Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
  • Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode, including set up, configuration, troubleshooting and cluster management
  • Containerization and Container Orchestration Tools experience: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
  • Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg: Avro, JSON)
  • Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration and communication between services
  • Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms: TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit
  • Kafka ecosystem tooling experience: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
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