KAFKA Administrator

Hiring: Kafka Administrator

⚠️ Note: Local candidates to Jersey City, NJ or Dallas, TX only (In-person interview required)
📍 Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite) 
💼 Experience: 10 + Years 
🟢Work Authorization: H1B ,H4 AND USC

🔎 Role Overview: 

We are looking for a Kafka Administrator with strong hands-on experience in managing and optimizing large-scale Kafka environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, and security of Kafka clusters

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Kafka clusters (Zookeeper/KRaft, Connect, Schema Registry)
Monitor cluster health, consumer lag, throughput, and latency using Prometheus & Grafana
Manage topics, partitions, replication, and retention policies
Implement security protocols (SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos, ACLs)
Perform troubleshooting, RCA, and L3 production support
Design high availability & disaster recovery strategies
Automate infrastructure and operations using Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes
Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize data pipelines and integrations

✅ Required Skills

Primary Skill:

Apache Kafka (Deep expertise)

Core Technologies:

Confluent Kafka
Linux System Administration
Prometheus, Grafana, JMX

Scripting & Development:

Python / Bash / Java

DevOps & Containerization:

Docker
Kubernetes / OpenShift
Ansible / Terraform