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Kafka Administrator - Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Kafka Security

Full-time

Astra North Infoteck Inc.

Job Description: Kafka Admin

Toronto Downtown ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)

6-12 months


Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

- Apache Kafka Administration

- Kafka Cluster Installation Configuration and Management

- Topic Partition and Replication Management

- Kafka Broker Administration and Performance Tuning

- Kafka Connect

- Schema Registry

- Consumer Group Management

- Kafka Security (SSL/TLS SASL ACLs)

- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Configuration

- Kafka Monitoring and Alerting

- Linux/Unix Administration

- Shell Scripting (Bash) and/or Python Scripting

- Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis of Kafka Production Issues

- Capacity Planning and Cluster Scaling

- Log Analysis and Performance Optimization - Experience with Monitoring Tools (Prometheus Grafana Splunk ELK Datadog) - Understanding of Distributed Systems and Event-Driven Architecture - Production Support and Incident Management - Kafka Upgrades Patching and Maintenance Activities

Roles & Responsibilities

- Install configure administer and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across Development Testing UAT and Production environments.

- Manage Kafka brokers topics partitions replication factors and consumer groups to ensure platform stability and performance.

- Monitor Kafka cluster health availability capacity and resource utilization using enterprise monitoring tools.

- Perform Kafka performance tuning capacity planning and cluster scaling activities to support growing business workloads.

- Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka infrastructure messaging connectivity and performance-related issues.

- Configure and manage Kafka security controls including SSL/TLS SASL authentication ACLs and encryption standards.

- Support Kafka Connect Schema Registry and other ecosystem components required for data integration.

- Implement and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Kafka platforms.

- Perform Kafka upgrades patching migration and platform maintenance activities with minimal business impact.

- Collaborate with application data engineering infrastructure and DevOps teams to onboard and support Kafka-based applications.

- Develop and maintain operational procedures runbooks architecture documentation and support guides.

- Configure and manage monitoring logging alerting and incident management processes for Kafka environments.

- Support production deployments release activities and environment readiness assessments.

- Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures to improve platform reliability.

- Automate administrative and operational tasks using Shell scripting Python or other automation tools.

- Ensure platform compliance with organizational security governance audit and regulatory requirements.

- Participate in on-call support and provide timely resolution for critical production issues.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance Kafka platform performance scalability security and operational efficiency.

Generic Managerial Skills If any

- Teamwork

- Willingness to learn


Key Words to search in Resume

Apache Kafka Kafka Cluster Management Kafka Connect Confluent Platform Kafka Security (SSL/SASL/ACL) Linux/Unix Administration Kafka Performance Tuning


Required Skills:

60-70

Required Education:

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