Kafka Operations Administrator
$110,000 - $140,000/yr
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills 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 Good to Have: 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 Role and 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 Base Salary Range : $110,000 to $140,000 Per Annum TCS Employee Benefits Summary: Discretionary Annual Incentive. Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical \& Health, Dental \& Vision, Disability Planning \& Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans. Family Support: Maternal \& Parental Leaves. Insurance Options: Auto \& Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection. Convenience \& Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits \& Certification \& Training Reimbursement. Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave \& Holidays. Legal \& Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing. #LI-SV2 #LI-KUMARAN Location Seattle, WA Job Function TECHNOLOGY Role Senior Engineer Job Id 393248 Desired Skills Kafka Salary Range $110,000-$140,000 a year Desired Candidate Profile Qualifications : BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE