Kafka Administrator

Job Title: Kakfa Administrator

Job Location:Toronto Downtown, ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)

Long Term Contract

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Apache Kafka Administration

• Kafka Cluster Installation, Configuration, and Management

• Topic, Partition, and Replication Management

• Kafka Broker Administration and Performance Tuning

• Kafka Connect

• Schema Registry

• Consumer Group Management

• Kafka Security (SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs)

• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Configuration

• Kafka Monitoring and Alerting

• Linux/Unix Administration

• Shell Scripting (Bash) and/or Python Scripting

• Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis of Kafka Production Issues

• Capacity Planning and Cluster Scaling

• Log Analysis and Performance Optimization - Experience with Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog) - Understanding of Distributed Systems and Event-Driven Architecture - Production Support and Incident Management - Kafka Upgrades, Patching, and Maintenance Activities.

Roles & Responsibilities

• 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.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Teamwork

• Willingness to learn