Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Indianapolis, IN is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator to design, deploy, maintain, and scale Kafka clusters within mission-critical environments.

You will also support Linux-based infrastructure that underpins our real-time data platform, ensuring reliability and performance. The role requires five or more years of Kafka administration, Confluent Kafka experience, and strong Linux/python Bash scripting skills.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of Kafka administration experience, ideally with Confluent Kafka.
• Proficiency in Linux, Python, or Bash scripting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters in production environments.
• Perform Kafka upgrades and patching ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
• Administer security protocols and access controls to protect the platform.
• Monitor cluster health and performance using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents such as broker outages and replication lag.
• Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline tasks and reduce manual intervention.
• Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth.
• Develop Kafka topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry, and optimize throughput and reliability.
• Manage Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Mirror Maker as needed for data pipelines.
• Ensure platform reliability on enterprise-grade Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu).
• Automate Kafka provisioning, configuration, and monitoring using IaC and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Deep knowledge of Kafka ecosystem components like ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, KRaft.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Kafka admin

Confluent Kafka

Python scripting

Linux/bash

Monitoring tools

Security protocols

Education

BE/B.Tech/MCA

Job description

Tekskills Inc. in Indianapolis, IN is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator to design, deploy, maintain, and scale Kafka clusters within mission-critical environments.

You will also support Linux-based infrastructure that underpins our real-time data platform, ensuring reliability and performance. The role requires five or more years of Kafka administration, Confluent Kafka experience, and strong Linux/python Bash scripting skills.