Kafka Administrator

𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐊𝐚𝐟𝐤𝐚 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐃𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬, 𝐓𝐗/𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐍𝐉 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 : 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 (𝐎𝐧-𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞) 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝: 𝐈𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 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 (SSLTLS SASL ACLs) and automate tasks using tools like Ansible or Terraform. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: - Cluster Management Installing configuring| and upgrading Kafka brokers Zookeeper Raft| 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 Access Control Implementing security measures such as SSLTLS 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 optimise producer consumer configurations and onboard new applications. 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬: - In-depth knowledge of Apache Kafka Confluent Kafka. Strong Linux system administration skills. Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana| JMX). Scripting proficiency in Python| Bash or Java. Experience with containerisation tools (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift)