Kafka Operations Administrator

TATA Consulting Services•Seattle, WA

57d

About The Position

Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience, managing, maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, fail-over and overall reliability Kafka ecosystem tooling experience: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, JMX metrics and Splunk Automation and orchestration experience: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) or equivalent Scripting and tooling experience: Python or Bash for automation and runbooks Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management. Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration and communication between services. Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms: TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit Experience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations, JVM tuning, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics and documenting incidents/postmortems Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Requirements

Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience, managing, maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, fail-over and overall reliability
Kafka ecosystem tooling experience: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, JMX metrics and Splunk
Automation and orchestration experience: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) or equivalent
Scripting and tooling experience: Python or Bash for automation and runbooks
Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.
Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.
Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms: TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit
Experience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations, JVM tuning, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics and documenting incidents/postmortems
Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Nice To Haves

Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experience
Knowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once)
Cloud-native security/compliance experience (IAM, VPC, KMS, Security Groups)
Certifications: Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode, including set up, configuration, troubleshooting and cluster management
Containerization and Container Orchestration Tools experience: Docker, Kubernetes
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg: Avro, JSON)

Benefits

Discretionary Annual Incentive.
Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

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