KAFKA Admin

🔧 Key Technical Expertise:
🔐 Security & Access Control:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka/Confluent in production
• End-to-end SSL/TLS configuration across Kafka ecosystems
• RBAC authorization setup and service account management
⚡ High Availability & Scalability:
• Design for HA, redundancy, and failover resilience
• Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) clusters aligned to RPO/RTO
• Topic/partition strategy, retention planning & capacity forecasting
📊 Monitoring & Observability:
• Monitoring and alerting using Prometheus & Grafana
• Operational dashboards & alerting via New Relic
🚀 Performance Engineering:
• Performance testing & tuning (producers, consumers, brokers, Connect)
• Troubleshooting complex production issues (networking, storage, infra)
🔄 Connectors & Data Integration:
• Implementation of Confluent Oracle Premium CDC Connector
• Confluent Sink Connector to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Schema evolution, offsets, and error handling best practices
🌊 Streaming Development:
• Working knowledge of Apache Flink
• Hands-on development with Kafka Streams (topology design, state stores, exactly-once processing)
⚙️ DevOps & Automation:
• Experience with Azure DevOps & Git
• CI/CD pipeline development