Kafka Admin

Position: Kafka Admin

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 ADMIN 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: joelp@petadata.co

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