Kakfa Administrator

Role: Kafka Administrator

Location: Toronto ,ON(Hybrid)

Duration - Long Term

Job Description:

Kafka Administrator

Must-Have Skills

• Apache Kafka Administration
• Kafka Cluster Installation, Configuration & Management
• Topic, Partition, Replication & Consumer Group Management
• Kafka Broker Administration & Performance Tuning
• Kafka Connect & Schema Registry
• Kafka Security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs)
• High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Kafka Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog)
• Linux/Unix Administration
• Shell (Bash) and/or Python Scripting
• Troubleshooting, RCA, Capacity Planning & Cluster Scaling
• Understanding of Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture
• Production Support, Upgrades & Patching

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Kafka clusters across all environments.
• Manage brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and consumer groups.
• Monitor cluster health, performance, capacity, and availability.
• Perform performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, and patching.
• Troubleshoot production issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Configure Kafka security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs).
• Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, HA/DR, and monitoring.
• Automate operational tasks using Bash/Python.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Application teams.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and support production/on-call activities.