• “The primary objective of the Kafka Administrator is to develop and maintain the corporate messaging infrastructure ensuring message delivery, security, retention, and recoverability of the topics and messages.
• In this role, the Kafka Admin will design, build, test, and deploy quality messaging and streaming solutions that are consistent with project objectives, technology architecture standards and departmental best practices. The Kafka admin will design and implement event sourcing strategies, administer enterprise-wide messaging architecture, and provide daily management of Kafka eco-system.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Manage large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on AWS and on-prem OpenShift platform.
• Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.
• Ability to closely collaborate with product managers and lead engineers.
• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts
• Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support.”