About the job Sarvaha would like to welcome Kafka Platform Engineer (or a seasoned backend engineer aspiring to move into platform architecture) with a minimum of 4 years of solid experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms. Sarvaha is a niche software development company that works with some of the best funded startups and established companies across the globe. Please visit our website at What Youll Do - Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and StatefulSets - Tune Kafka for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency - Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC - Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure - Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter - Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry - Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads - Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) and container workflows You Bring - BE/BTech/ MTech (CS/IT or MCA), with an emphasis in Software Engineering - Strong foundation in the Apache Kafka ecosystem and internals (brokers, ZooKeeper/ KRaft, partitions, storage) - Proficient in Kafka setup, tuning, scaling, and topic/partition management - Skilled in managing Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform - Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and GitOps workflows - Monitoring expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX - Experience on EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred - Strong troubleshooting and incident response mindset - High sense of ownership and automation-first thinking - Excellent collaboration with SREs, developers, and platform teams - Clear communicator, documentation-driven, and eager to mentor/share knowledge.
