Kafka Administrator

Role: Senior Kafka Administrator Location: Mumbai / Bangalore / Chennai Shift time: 6:00 PM IST - 3:00 AM IST Job Summary: Senior Kafka Solutions expert with 10+ years of overall IT industry experience, including 5 to 8 years of deep, hands-on Apache Kafka administration in large-scale production environments. This role is not advisory-only. The ideal candidate must have owned and operated mission-critical, multi-cluster Kafka platforms, designed for high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant event streaming across hybrid and cloud-native ecosystems. Define and execute a 3 to 5 year strategic roadmap for Kafka and enterprise event-streaming platforms while remaining deeply technical in cluster architecture, platform reliability, performance tuning, and operational governance. Core Responsibilities: Kafka Platform Architecture & Ownership Deep Kafka Administration & Operations (58 Years Required) Event-Driven Architecture Strategy DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering Cloud & Kubernetes Integration Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering Mandatory Experience: 10+ years of total IT industry experience in distributed systems, middleware, or platform engineering. 58 years of hands-on Kafka administration experience in production environments. Experience managing clusters with:10+ brokers, High partition counts (10K+), TB–PB scale data retention Proven experience in performance tuning and incident response for high-throughput Kafka systems. Deep understanding of Kafka internals: Brokers, ZooKeeper & KRaft, Producers & Consumers, ISR mechanics, Partition leadership, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams Technical Stack Expectations: Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka (core), Confluent Platform, MirrorMaker 2 / Cluster Linking, Kafka Connect ecosystem Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes (production-grade deployments), AWS and/or GCP, Infrastructure automation (Terraform / Ansible) DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub / GitLab, JIRA, Argo CD, CI/CD pipeline integration Scripting & Automation: Python, Shell scripting Ideal Candidate Profile: Has operated Kafka as a platform owner, not just a consumer. Comfortable debugging issues at the broker JVM level. Strong background in distributed systems reliability engineering. Able to translate business throughput requirements into partitioning and replication strategies. Confident presenting Kafka strategy to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders. Regards Ramkumar Subramani Talent Acquisition - Atos 9363437874