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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