Senior Kafka Platform Engineer & Admin

Infosys Limited; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys Limited in the United Kingdom seeks a senior Kafka administrator to provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters (KRaft or ZooKeeper-backed) and Confluent components, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Control Center, plus Confluent Cloud resources.

You will ensure high availability, perform upgrades, maintain backup workflows, enforce security, monitor performance, and optimize multi-region deployments; 5–10 years in platform/SRE/DevOps with 3+ years Kafka admin in

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in platform/SRE/DevOps.
• 3+ years dedicated to Kafka/Confluent admin in production.
• Strong hands-on with Apache Kafka internals.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters and Confluent components.
• Ensure high availability across multi AZ/region deployments.
• Plan upgrades/patching with minimal downtime.
• Own backup/restore workflows for metadata and schemas.
• Implement authentication and authorization (mTLS, SASL, Kerberos).
• Enforce encryption in transit and at rest; secret management.
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs and monitor performance.
• Automate cluster and topic lifecycle using Terraform, Helm, GitOps.
• Operate Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and streaming SQL components.
• Audit trails and compliance artifacts.

Skills

Kafka administration

SRE/DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Confluent Platform

Security & RBAC

Tools

Kafka CLI tools

AdminClient

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Infosys Limited in the United Kingdom seeks a senior Kafka administrator to provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters (KRaft or ZooKeeper-backed) and Confluent components, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and Control Center, plus Confluent Cloud resources.

You will ensure high availability, perform upgrades, maintain backup workflows, enforce security, monitor performance, and optimize multi-region deployments; 5–10 years in platform/SRE/DevOps with 3+ years Kafka admin in