Kafka Administrator - Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Kafka Security
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
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