Senior - Database Administrator

HCA Healthcare - India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HCA Healthcare - India is seeking a Data Platform Engineer - Streaming Platforms in Hyderabad to oversee Apache Kafka administration for enterprise-scale real-time workloads. You will install, tune, monitor, and upgrade Kafka clusters while collaborating with application, data engineering, and security teams to ensure reliability and security.

The role requires 4–8 years of IT experience with hands-on Kafka production work, knowledge of security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs), and Linux scripting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka in production or enterprise environments.
• Proficient with installing, configuring, and upgrading Kafka clusters.
• Experience with security: SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs.
• Strong Linux/Unix and shell scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, and upgrade Apache Kafka clusters.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, and performance; troubleshoot issues.
• Manage topics, partitions, replication, retention, and resources.
• Handle producers, consumers, offsets, and consumer groups.
• Implement Kafka security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs).
• Support production environments, perform root-cause analysis and incident response.
• Analyze logs to identify and resolve issues.
• Perform routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Support HA, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery for streaming platforms.
• Use Linux/Unix and shell scripting to automate tasks.
• Maintain runbooks and configuration standards.
• Collaborate with application/infrastructure teams to onboard new use cases.

Skills

Kafka administration

Kafka security

Linux/Unix

Shell scripting

Production support

Zookeeper/KRaft

Monitoring & performance

Incident troubleshooting

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Schema Registry

Job description

Job Description:

Reports Directly To (Title)

Director or Senior Director

Matrix Reports To (Title)

As applicable

Direct Reports

Individual contributor; no direct reports

Position Summary

The Data Platform Engineer - Streaming Platforms is responsible for the administration, reliability, security, and operational support of enterprise Apache Kafka environments. This role is intended for an experienced Kafka Administrator with 4-8 years of overall IT experience and hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka platforms. The engineer will install, configure, administer, monitor, troubleshoot, tune, and upgrade Kafka clusters that support business-critical real-time streaming workloads. The role works closely with application, data engineering, infrastructure, security, and production support teams to maintain stable, secure, and highly available streaming services.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, and upgrade Apache Kafka clusters across enterprise environments.
• Monitor Kafka platform health, availability, capacity, and performance; troubleshoot platform issues and implement performance-tuning recommendations.
• Create, configure, and manage Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, retention settings, and other cluster resources.
• Manage and troubleshoot producers, consumers, offsets, and consumer groups to support reliable message processing.
• Implement and maintain Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
• Support production Kafka environments, participate in incident troubleshooting, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with service restoration.
• Analyze Kafka, broker, operating-system, and application logs to identify and resolve production issues.
• Perform routine platform maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and operational health checks.
• Support high availability, replication, resiliency, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery requirements for streaming platforms.
• Use Linux/Unix administration and Shell scripting to support platform operations and automate repetitive administrative tasks.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, configuration standards, troubleshooting procedures, and platform inventories.
• Collaborate with application and engineering teams to onboard new Kafka use cases and resolve platform integration issues.
• Support Kafka environments using Zookeeper and/or Kraft architecture and participate in platform modernization activities.

Education & Experience

• 4-8 years of overall Information Technology experience.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration in production or enterprise environments.
• Experience with Kafka cluster installation, configuration, administration, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka topics, partitions, replication, brokers, producers, consumers, offsets, and consumer groups.
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning Kafka clusters and streaming workloads.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kafka security, including SSL/TLS, SASL authentication, and ACL based authorization.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and Shell scripting.
• Experience supporting production systems and troubleshooting incidents in business critical environments.
• Knowledge of Apache Zookeeper and Kafka KRaft architecture.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical teams.

Must Have Skills

• Kafka cluster installation, configuration, administration, and upgrades
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Topics, partitions, replication, and consumer group management
• Kafka security - SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACLs
• Linux/Unix and Shell scripting
• Production support and incident troubleshooting
• Zookeeper/KRaft architecture

Nice To Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka or Confluent Platform.
• Experience with Kafka Connect and connector administration.
• Experience administering or supporting Schema Registry.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for Kafka monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, or scripting used to operate streaming platforms.

Licenses, Certifications & Training

• N/A

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly diagnose, resolve, and prevent complex Kafka platform and streaming-related issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to effectively partner with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of platform reliability, availability, security, and operational best practices, with a focus on maintaining stable and highly available enterprise systems.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and make sound technical decisions while supporting critical production environments and service-level objectives.
• Demonstrates accountability, attention to detail, continuous learning, and a customer-focused mindset while promoting operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and process improvement.