Kafka Administrator

About Volante

Volante Technologies is a global fintech leader, delivering a cloud-native Payments Processing Platform to banks and financial institutions worldwide. Join our fast-paced, innovation-driven team and help shape the future of payments technology.

Who Were Looking For

We are seeking an experienced Middleware Administrator with expertise in Kafka and RabbitMQ to manage, scale, and optimize messaging infrastructure in both on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualification

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science from a reputed institute

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage Kafka clusters (on-prem & cloud-native)
  
• Administer RabbitMQ on UNIX/Cloud environments
  
• Develop and manage Kafka connectors (JDBC, JMS, MQ, Elasticsearch, etc.)
  
• Monitor performance, ensure high availability, and troubleshoot issues
  
• Configure security (Kerberos, SSL), access lists, and cluster setups
  
• Automate deployments using Docker, Jenkins, GitLab
  
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Dev, QA)
  
• Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

Must-Have Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka and RabbitMQ
  
• Kafka architecture: brokers, zookeepers, schema registry, KSQL, REST Proxy
  
• Strong knowledge of messaging middleware (JMS, STOMP, AMQP)
  
• Kafka REST Proxy and stream processing platforms (e.g., AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub)
  
• Linux (preferably RHEL), scripting (Python/Java), and automation (Ansible)
  
• Shift flexibility & strong communication skills

Good-to-Have Skills

• Kubernetes & in-memory data systems
  
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS MQ)
  
• Custom Kafka connector development
  
• Familiarity with data ingestion and extraction techniques