Job Description :
- We are seeking a Platform Engineer with 3 4 years of experience working on Kafka in production environments
- This role focuses on the deployment configuration monitoring and lifecycle management of Kafka based data platforms ensuring they are secure scalable and highly available
- The ideal candidate will have hands on experience across various components of Kafka including Kafka Connect Schema Registry and REST Proxy
Key Responsibilities :
Deploy configure and manage Kafka clusters across development staging and production environmentsEnsure platform reliability scalability and performance through proactive monitoring tuning and capacity planningManage and maintain Kafka components such as Kafka Connect Schema Registry and REST ProxyImplement platform level security including access controls TLS encryption and audit loggingMonitor platform health using observability tools and respond to alerts and incidentsCollaborate with application and data engineering teams to support integration and usage of KafkaMaintain documentation for deployment procedures operational runbooks and platform standardsPerform regular upgrades patching and vulnerability remediation across platform componentsEnsure compliance with infrastructure and security best practices and standardsTechnical Requirements :
3 4 years of experience in platform or infrastructure engineering rolesHands on experience with Kafka in production environmentsStrong understanding of Kafka architecture including brokers topics partitions replication and retention policiesExperience managing Kafka Connect connectors and Schema Registry configurationsExperience with Linux system administration and shell scriptingUnderstanding of networking load balancing and DNS in cloud or hybrid environmentsStrong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skillsAdditional Responsibilities :
Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools eTerraform AnsibleExperience with monitoring and alerting tools ePrometheus GrafanaExposure to stream processing platforms such as FlinkPreferred Skills : Domain->
SDN-NFV->
Network Automation Tools->
Ansible,Technology->
Infrastructure-Transformation->
Cloud enabled Infrastructure->
Terraform,Technology->
Cloud Platform->
AWS Data Analytics->
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Skills Required
Prometheus, Shell Scripting, Linux System Administration, Grafana, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka