Kafka Administrator (Core Kafka | Automation | Ansible/Python)

Tech Mirrors; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors is seeking a Kafka Administrator with over 5 years of strong hands-on experience in Core Apache Kafka administration. The role involves configuring and managing Kafka clusters, performance monitoring, and automating tasks using Ansible and Python.

Candidates should have extensive experience in administration, security implementation, and troubleshooting. The position is hybrid, allowing flexibility based on client requirements, but in-person interviews are mandatory.

Qualifications

• 10+ years overall IT experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of Core Kafka experience.
• Strong expertise in Ansible and Python for automation.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and upgrade Apache Kafka clusters.
• Monitor Kafka cluster performance and troubleshoot production issues.
• Automate Kafka administration tasks using Ansible and Python.

Skills

Core Kafka Experience

Ansible

Python

Performance Monitoring

Security Implementation

Job description

Job Title: Kafka Administrator (Core Kafka | Automation | Ansible/Python)

Location: Dallas, TX or Jersey City, NJ (must be able to attend an in‑person interview).

Work Mode: Hybrid/Onsite (based on client requirement).

Interview Mode: Mandatory in‑person interview (face‑to‑face).

Experience: 10+ years overall IT experience.

Core Kafka Experience: Minimum 5+ years.

Employment Type: Contract.

Note: Candidates from any U.S. location are welcome to apply. Local candidates are NOT mandatory, but the candidate must be willing to attend an in‑person interview at the client location.

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Kafka Administrator with strong hands‑on experience in Core Apache Kafka administration and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 5+ years of dedicated Core Kafka experience along with strong expertise in Ansible and Python for automation. The role involves administering enterprise Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability, monitoring performance, implementing security, troubleshooting production issues, and automating operational processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and upgrade Apache Kafka clusters.
• Manage Kafka Brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry.
• Monitor Kafka cluster performance, broker health, producer throughput, consumer lag, and latency.
• Configure and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, replication, and retention policies.
• Perform Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Implement Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos, and ACLs.
• Troubleshoot Kafka production issues and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Automate Kafka administration, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks using Ansible and Python.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize Kafka producers, consumers, and messaging architecture.
• Support production deployments, upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery for Kafka environments.