Tekshapers · 11 hours ago
Kafka Admin
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelTekshapers is looking for a Kafka Admin to manage and maintain Kafka clusters in production environments. The role involves ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and overall reliability while implementing automation and monitoring solutions.
Software
Responsibilities
Deploy, configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SLA requirement
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation to respond to incidents, alerts, and escalations
Triage, diagnose, and remediate production incidents; coordinate with stakeholders, developers and infrastructure teams
Implement automation for provisioning, scaling, server/data backups, and disaster recovery
Maintain monitoring, alerting thresholds, dashboards, and Kafka ecosystem health
Harden Kafka deployments: configure TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and vulnerability remediation
Perform routine maintenance: Kafka ecosystem upgrades (controllers, brokers, connect, and schema registry), rolling restarts, etc
Create and maintain runbooks, runbook automation, and post-incident reports
Optimize performance and resource utilization; benchmark and tune clusters
Support Kafka Connect/Schema Registry service and troubleshoot connector issues
Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements for infrastructure and deployment automation
Qualification
Required
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
Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, Splunk, JMX metrics
Automation and orchestration experience: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management
Experience in Production Support (ITIL processes followed) and participating in 24x7 on-call rotations, documenting incidents/postmortems
Experience in supporting JVM tuning, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics
Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations
Preferred
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)
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
Kafka ecosystem tooling experience: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
Company
Tekshapers
Tekshapers was founded in 2009, an MI, USA based Information Technology Company and our primary objective is to provide sophisticated business solutions to a group of companies worldwide.
Founded in 2008
501-1000 employees
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