Job Description

Role: Kafka Administrator (Confluent Platform) (Only W2)

Location: New York City, NY (3 days on-site per week)

Contract

Job Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Confluent Kafka clusters in a highly available production environment.
• Execute Kafka upgrades and patching with minimal downtime and smooth transitions.
• Administer security protocols and access controls to protect the platform and data.
• Monitor cluster health and performance using the organization’s monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana) and respond to anomalies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents (e.g., broker outages, replication lag, partition reassignment, data loss risks).
• Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual interventions.
• Assist with capacity planning and resource management to support future growth (topics, partitions, quotas, and hardware requirements).
• Collaborate with SRE/DevOps, data engineers, and application teams to optimize data pipelines and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of Kafka administration experience, preferably with Confluent Platform in production environments.
• Proven expertise in Kafka upgrades, production troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Strong background in Linux system administration.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting for automation and tooling.
• Solid understanding of Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability; experience creating dashboards and alerts.
• Familiarity with security best practices for Kafka (ACLs, Kerberos/SASL, TLS) is a plus.
• Confluent Kafka certification is advantageous.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Schema Registry.
• Familiarity with cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Knowledge of data governance and compliance considerations related to streaming platforms.

Thanks & Kind Regards,

Avinash Pathak

Delta System & Software, Inc.

Email Id: avinash.pathak@deltassi.biz

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