Kafka Administrator

As a Kafka Administrator at our Merchant Ecommerce platform, located in Noida Sector 62, you will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing our distributed, multi-cluster Kafka infrastructure in an on-premise environment. Your role will require a deep understanding of Kafka internals, Zookeeper administration, performance tuning, and operational excellence in high-throughput, low-latency production systems. Additionally, experience with API gateway operations (specifically Kong) and observability tooling would be advantageous. Your key responsibilities will include managing multiple Kafka clusters with high-availability Zookeeper setups, conducting end-to-end operational support, capacity planning, implementation of backup and disaster recovery processes, enforcing security configurations, optimizing Kafka producer and consumer performance, planning and executing upgrades and patching, integrating with monitoring platforms, defining log retention and archival policies, monitoring Kafka metrics and logs, collaborating on security and compliance measures, and supporting regular vulnerability assessments. You will be expected to have at least 3+ years of hands-on Kafka administration experience in production environments, a strong understanding of Kafka internals and Zookeeper management, experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting, familiarity with security mechanisms like TLS/mTLS, ACLs, and SASL, proficiency with monitoring and logging tools, and scripting skills for operational automation. Experience with API gateways, Kubernetes-based environments, compliance standards, security hardening practices, and IaC tools would be a plus. In return, we offer you a mission-critical role in managing large-scale real-time data infrastructure, a flexible work environment, opportunities for growth, a supportive team, and access to modern observability and automation tools.,