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Hi,
Greetings!!
I came across your profile from one of the job boards, and I found it very impressive and matching to one of our direct client requirements. So, I thought of reaching out to you regarding a Kafka Engineer mentioned below. If interested and available kindly revert with your updated resume along with a best time to discuss the opportunity in detail.
Title: Kafka Engineer (BFSI Industry exp)
Location: Alpharetta, GA / NYC, NY (Day 1 onsite)
Note: 2nd round F2F
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
• Deploy, configure and maintain Confluent Kafka clusters in a highly available environment.
• 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 our established monitoring stack(Prometheus, Grafana)
• Troubleshoot and resolve cluster-related incidents such as broker outages, replication lag.
• Develop and enhance automation scripts to streamline operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
• Assist with planning and managing cluster resources to support future growth.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information technology or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of Kafka administration experience, ideally with confluent platform.
• Demonstrated expertise in Kafka upgrades and production troubleshooting.
• Strong background in Linux system administration.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting for automation.
• Good understanding of Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability.
• Certification on Confluent Kafka is a plus.
Appreciate if you could let me know of any of your friends or colleagues who might be interested in the above-mentioned role at your earliest possible. Please feel free to email me should you need any further information.
