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Kafka Developer / Admin
- Mississauga, ON, Canada
$100,000 to $110,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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- $100,000 to $110,000 CAD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Experience: 8+ Years
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Role: Kafka Developer/Admin
Location: Mississauga, ON
Experience: 8+ Years
Employment: Full-Time
Required Skills & Experience:
- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across Development, Testing, UAT, and Production environments.
- Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, and consumer groups to ensure platform stability and performance.
- Monitor Kafka cluster health, availability, capacity, and resource utilization using enterprise monitoring tools.
- Perform Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, and cluster scaling activities to support growing business workloads.
- Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka infrastructure, messaging, connectivity, and performance-related issues.
- Configure and manage Kafka security controls including SSL/TLS, SASL authentication, ACLs, and encryption standards.
- Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and other ecosystem components required for data integration.
- Implement and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Kafka platforms.
- Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migration, and platform maintenance activities with minimal business impact.
- Collaborate with application, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to onboard and support Kafka-based applications.
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, architecture documentation, and support guides.
- Configure and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management processes for Kafka environments.
- Support production deployments, release activities, and environment readiness assessments.
- Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures to improve platform reliability.
- Automate administrative and operational tasks using Shell scripting, Python, or other automation tools.
- Ensure platform compliance with organizational security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Participate in on-call support and provide timely resolution for critical production issues.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance Kafka platform performance, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
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Responsibilities
Administer, monitor, secure, scale, and maintain Kafka clusters and related ecosystem components across development, testing, UAT, and production environments. Troubleshoot incidents, support deployments and application onboarding, automate operational tasks, and improve platform reliability, performance, and compliance.
Requirements
The role requires 8+ years of experience managing Apache Kafka platforms, including brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, security, and ecosystem components. Candidates should be able to handle performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery, production support, automation with Shell or Python, and collaboration across engineering and infrastructure teams.
Skills
- Apache Kafka Administration
- Kafka Cluster Management
- Kafka Performance Tuning
- Capacity Planning
- Kafka Security
- Kafka Connect
- Schema Registry
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Kafka Upgrades and Migration
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Incident Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Shell Scripting
- Python
- Production Support
- DevOps Collaboration
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Apache Kafka
- Kafka Brokers
- Kafka Topics
- Partitions
- Replication Factors
- Consumer Groups
- Kafka Connect
- Schema Registry
- SSL/TLS
- SASL
- Access Control Lists
- Encryption
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Performance Tuning
- Capacity Planning
- Cluster Scaling
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Incident Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Shell Scripting
- Python
- Automation
- Production Deployments
- DevOps
- Security Compliance
- Governance
- Audit