Job Description
Platform Engineering & Operations
• Design, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters across on-prem, cloud, and Kubernetes environments
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
• Implement Kafka ecosystem tools:
- Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB
- • Automate provisioning using:
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm, scripting
- • Configure monitoring and observability:
- Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog
- • Perform performance tuning (partitions, replication, retention, ISR, broker configs)
Security & Governance
• Implement authentication & authorization (SASL, ACLs, RBAC)
• Enforce encryption standards (TLS, data security)
• Manage schema governance and lifecycle policies
Required Skills
• Strong experience with Apache Kafka & event streaming
• Hands-on with Kafka ecosystem tools (Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB)
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes (Helm)
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
• Strong security practices (SASL, TLS, RBAC)
• Experience with API platforms (Akana API Management preferred)