Kafka Operations Administrator

Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience, managing, maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, fail-over and overall reliability Kafka ecosystem tooling experience:
Kafka Connect, Schema Registry Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, JMX metrics and Splunk Automation and orchestration experience:
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) or equivalent Scripting and tooling experience:
Python or Bash for automation and runbooks Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management. Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration and communication between services. Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms: TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit Experience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations, JVM tuning, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics and documenting incidents/postmortems Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Good to Have:
Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experience Knowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once) Cloud-native security/compliance experience (IAM, VPC, KMS, Security Groups)

Certifications:

Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications

Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode, including set up, configuration, troubleshooting and cluster management Containerization and Container Orchestration Tools experience:
Docker, Kubernetes

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg: Avro, JSON)

Base Salary Range: $110,000 - $140,000 per annum

TCS Employee Benefits

Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive. Comprehensive Medical Coverage:
Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans. Family Support:
Maternal & Parental Leaves. Insurance Options:
Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection. Convenience & Professional Growth:
Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement. Time Off:
Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays. Legal & Financial Assistance:
Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

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