Senior Kafka Infrastructure Engineer

Sarvaha Systems; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sarvaha Systems is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer with 4+ years of experience to architect, deploy, and manage Kafka on Kubernetes. You will tune performance, ensure security with TLS/SASL, and automate across cloud providers. A strong focus on ownership and collaboration with SREs and developers is essential.

You will work with Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and stateful deployments, plus monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana, and participate in end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of solid Kafka experience on Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, partitions.
• Experience with Strimzi, Helm, Terraform and StatefulSets.
• Excellent collaboration with SREs and developers.
• Documentation-driven with ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes.
• Tune for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets.
• Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Set up monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana; JMX Exporter.
• Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry.
• Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) and container workflows.

Skills

Kafka ecosystem

Platform architecture

Automation mindset

Incident response

Documentation

Education

BE/BTech/MTech (CS/IT or MCA)

Tools

Strimzi

Helm

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

JMX

Job description

About the job

Sarvaha would like to welcome Kafka Platform Engineer (or a seasoned backend engineer aspiring to move into platform architecture) with a minimum of 4 years of solid experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka infrastructure on Kubernetes platforms.

Sarvaha is a niche software development company that works with some of the best funded startups and established companies across the globe. Please visit our website at

What Youll Do

• Deploy and manage scalable Kafka clusters on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform, and StatefulSets
• Tune Kafka for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
• Implement Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC
• Automate deployments across AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter
• Integrate Kafka ecosystem components: Connect, Streams, Schema Registry
• Define autoscaling, resource limits, and network policies for Kubernetes workloads
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins) and container workflows

You Bring

• BE/BTech/ MTech (CS/IT or MCA), with an emphasis in Software Engineering
• Strong foundation in the Apache Kafka ecosystem and internals (brokers, ZooKeeper/ KRaft, partitions, storage)
• Proficient in Kafka setup, tuning, scaling, and topic/partition management
• Skilled in managing Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Helm, Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and GitOps workflows
• Monitoring expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX
• Experience on EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response mindset
• High sense of ownership and automation-first thinking
• Excellent collaboration with SREs, developers, and platform teams
• Clear communicator, documentation-driven, and eager to mentor/share knowledge.