Kafka Admin

Tata Consultancy Services; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. seeks a Kafka Platform Engineer to manage Apache Kafka clusters across Development, Testing, UAT and Production. You will ensure platform stability, perform tuning, and implement HA/DR, security controls and data integration components.

Responsibilities include on-call support, incident management and collaboration with DevOps, data engineering, and application teams to onboard Kafka-based applications.

Qualifications

• Experience installing, configuring and managing Apache Kafka clusters across Development, Testing, UAT and Production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Proven ability to monitor, troubleshoot and tune Kafka performance.
• Experience with Kafka Security controls (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs) and encryption standards.
• Ability to participate in on-call support and incident response.
• Knowledge of Kafka Connect and Schema Registry for data integration.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Kafka clusters across environments.
• Manage brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors and consumer groups for stability.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity and performance with enterprise tools.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning and scaling to meet workloads.
• Lead root-cause analyses for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Collaborate with DevOps, data engineering, and applications teams to support Kafka-based apps.

Skills

Kafka cluster administration

HA/DR configuration

SRE / production support

Root cause analysis

Shell scripting

Python scripting

Partition/Replication management

Security: SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana

Kafka Connect & Schema Registry

Incident management

Capacity planning & scaling

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

ELK

Datadog

Shell scripting (Bash)

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an equal opportunity employer, and embraces diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and sexual orientation, to create a workforce that reflects the societies we operate in. Our continued commitment to Culture and Diversity is reflected in our people stories across our workforce and implemented through equitable workplace policies and processes.

Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is the technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence and customer service.

It has set an aspiration to become the world's largest AI-led technology services company and is enabling its clients to transform themselves across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to intelligence.

Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce spread across 56 countries and 194 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Kafka Cluster Installation, Configuration, and Management
• Topic, Partition, and Replication Management
• Kafka Broker Administration and Performance Tuning
• Kafka Connect
• Schema Registry
• Consumer Group Management
• Kafka Security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs)
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Configuration
• Kafka Monitoring and Alerting
• Shell Scripting (Bash) and/or Python Scripting
• Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis of Kafka Production Issues
• Capacity Planning and Cluster Scaling
• Log Analysis and Performance Optimization
• Experience with Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog)
• Understanding of Distributed Systems and Event-Driven Architecture
• Production Support and Incident Management
• Kafka Upgrades, Patching, and Maintenance Activities
• Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across Development, Testing, UAT, and Production environments.
• Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, and consumer groups to ensure platform stability and performance.
• Monitor Kafka cluster health, availability, capacity, and resource utilization using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Perform Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, and cluster scaling activities to support growing business workloads.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka infrastructure, messaging, connectivity, and performance-related issues.
• Configure and manage Kafka security controls including SSL/TLS, SASL authentication, ACLs, and encryption standards.
• Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and other ecosystem components required for data integration.
• Implement and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Kafka platforms.
• Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migration, and platform maintenance activities with minimal business impact.
• Collaborate with application, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to onboard and support Kafka-based applications.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, architecture documentation, and support guides.
• Configure and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management processes for Kafka environments.
• Support production deployments, release activities, and environment readiness assessments.
• Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures to improve platform reliability.
• Automate administrative and operational tasks using Shell scripting, Python, or other automation tools.
• Ensure platform compliance with organizational security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in on-call support and provide timely resolution for critical production issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance Kafka platform performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Salry Range - CA$ 100,000 - CA$ 120,000 Per annum

TCS does not use artificial intelligence tools for candidate screening or evaluation. This post is for a current vacancy. The hiring process includes an initial screening, followed by a technical evaluation and managerial discussion.

Tata Consultancy Services Canada Inc. is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources.

Thank you for your interest in TCS. Candidates that meet the qualifications for this position will be contacted within a 2-week period.