About the role
Position: Kafka Administrator with Python
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)
Notice Period: Immediate or serving and able to join within a month.
Preferred candidate profile
Must-Have Skills
- 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and production support.
- Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, including brokers, controllers, topics, partitions, replicas, producers, consumers, and consumer groups.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka cluster administration and configuration.
- Strong experience troubleshooting Kafka issues in production environments.
- Good understanding of partitioning, replication, ISR, leader election, retention, consumer offsets, and consumer lag.
- Experience with Kafka monitoring, metrics, alerting, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience managing Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and broker configurations.
- Understanding of Kafka security, ACLs, authentication, authorization, and SSL/TLS.
- Experience with Python scripting for automation and operational tasks.
- Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments and command-line tools.
- Experience with Shell/Bash scripting.
- Experience with Git and version control practices.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Good understanding of networking concepts relevant to Kafka, including TCP/IP, ports, DNS, and connectivity troubleshooting.
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with Kafka Connect and/or Kafka Streams.
- Experience with Confluent Kafka / Confluent Platform.
- Experience with ZooKeeper-based and/or KRaft-based Kafka environments.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience managing Kafka on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of cloud-managed Kafka services such as Amazon MSK, Confluent Cloud, or Azure Event Hubs.
- Understanding of Kafka disaster recovery, backup/restore, replication, and multi-cluster architectures.
- Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
- Familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical Kafka environments.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and production support teams.
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