Technical Specialist - Kafka Build & Operations Support

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Technical Specialist – Kafka Build & Operations Support

Role Purpose

1. Administer, support, and maintain Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments across enterprise production and non-production landscapes.

2. Build, configure, deploy, and manage Kafka infrastructure including brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry.

3. Provide L3 production support for mission-critical event streaming platforms and participate in 24×7 operational support and incident management activities.

4. Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka-related issues including consumer lag, broker failures, replication issues, throughput bottlenecks, topic misconfigurations, and connectivity problems.

5. Support platform automation, provisioning, and operational excellence initiatives using Jenkins, Git, Python, Shell scripting, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.

6. Perform infrastructure lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, configuration management, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

7. Support cloud and containerized Kafka deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS MSK, ECS, and Linux environments.

8. Implement proactive monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Elastic Stack, Splunk, and enterprise monitoring tools.

9. Manage platform security including TLS/SSL encryption, Kafka ACLs, RBAC, authentication mechanisms (LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth), and certificate lifecycle management.

10. Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, database, and cybersecurity teams to enhance platform resiliency, scalability, compliance, and event-driven architecture adoption.

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