Platform Engineer (Kafka)

2 - 5 years

8 - 12 Lacs

Posted:3 days ago| Platform: Naukri logo

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Job Description

Educational Requirements

Bachelor of Engineering

Service Line

Information Systems

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, and manage Kafka clusters across development, staging, and production environments.
  • Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning.
  • Manage and maintain Kafka components such as Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and REST Proxy.
  • Implement platform-level security including access controls, TLS encryption, and audit logging.
  • Monitor platform health using observability tools and respond to alerts and incidents.
  • Collaborate with application and data engineering teams to support integration and usage of Kafka.
  • Maintain documentation for deployment procedures, operational runbooks, and platform standards.
  • Perform regular upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation across platform components.
  • Ensure compliance with infrastructure and security best practices and standards.
  • Additional Responsibilities:

  • Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Exposure to stream processing platforms such as Flink.\
  • Technical and Professional Requirements:

  • 34 years of experience in platform or infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, including brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and retention policies.
  • Experience managing Kafka Connect connectors and Schema Registry configurations.
  • Experience with Linux system administration and shell scripting.
  • Understanding of networking, load balancing, and DNS in cloud or hybrid environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
  • Preferred Skills:

    Technology->Infrastructure-Transformation->Cloud enabled Infrastructure->Terraform
    Domain->SDN-NFV->Network Automation Tools->Ansible
    Technology->Cloud Platform->AWS Data Analytics->Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

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