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K&K Global Talent Solutions INC.

Kafka Platform Engineer/Admin

ON, Canada
Ontario, Canada, Canada

Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Oct 24, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 24, 2026

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Original job description

Position: Kafka Engineer/Admin

Location: Hybrid- Mississauga, ON

Job type: Full-Time/Permanent Hiring

We are seeking a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer to administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise Apache Kafka platforms across Development, Test, UAT, and Production environments. The role focuses on Kafka infrastructure, cluster administration, security, performance, HA/DR, monitoring, upgrades, automation, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across multiple environments.
Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, and consumer groups.
Monitor Kafka cluster health, availability, capacity, and resource utilization.
Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, scaling, and optimization for growing workloads.
Troubleshoot Kafka infrastructure, messaging, connectivity, availability, and performance issues.
Configure Kafka security including SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs, authentication, and encryption.
Administer Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and related Kafka ecosystem components.
Design and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, and platform maintenance with minimal production impact.
Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-management processes.
Support production deployments, release activities, and environment readiness assessments.
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions for recurring production issues.
Automate Kafka administration and operational activities using Shell, Python, or similar scripting.
Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, architecture documentation, and support guides.
Collaborate with application, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to onboard and support Kafka applications.
Ensure Kafka platforms meet organizational security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Participate in on-call support for critical production environments.
Drive continuous improvements in Kafka performance, scalability, security, availability, and operational efficiency.

Required Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and platform operations.
Experience managing Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and consumer groups.
Strong knowledge of Kafka performance tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, and cluster scaling.
Hands-on experience with Kafka security, including SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs, and authentication.
Experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
Strong experience designing and supporting Kafka HA/DR environments.
Experience with Kafka upgrades, patching, migration, and production maintenance.
Strong troubleshooting and production incident-management experience.
Experience with Shell scripting, Python, or automation tools.
Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting, and RCA.

Preferred / Additional Qualifications

Experience supporting large-scale, multi-environment Kafka platforms.
Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud platforms.
Experience with Kafka observability and enterprise monitoring platforms.
Knowledge of security, governance, audit, and regulatory controls.
Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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Responsibilities

Administer, secure, monitor, optimize, and maintain enterprise Kafka clusters across development, test, UAT, and production environments, including upgrades, scaling, and HA/DR. Troubleshoot production issues, automate operational tasks, maintain documentation, and collaborate with application, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.

Requirements

Requires strong hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka, including brokers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, security, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and HA/DR. Candidates should also have experience with performance tuning, production incident response, upgrades, monitoring, automation using Shell or Python, and enterprise platform operations.

Skills

Apache Kafka Administration
Kafka Cluster Operations
Performance Tuning
Capacity Planning
Kafka Security
Kafka Connect
Schema Registry
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Production Troubleshooting
Incident Management
Shell Scripting
Python
Monitoring and Alerting
Root Cause Analysis
Automation
DevOps

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Keywords

Apache Kafka
Kafka Brokers
Topics
Partitions
Replication Factors
Consumer Groups
Kafka Connect
Schema Registry
SSL/TLS
SASL
ACLs
Authentication
Encryption
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Performance Tuning
Capacity Planning
Cluster Scaling
Shell Scripting
Python
Automation
Monitoring
Logging
Alerting
Root Cause Analysis
Production Support
DevOps
CI/CD
Infrastructure Automation
Cloud Platforms

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