PRIMUS Global Solutions (PRIMUS UK & Europe)
Kafka Admin Lead | Contract
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Hiring: Kafka Admin Lead | Contract
Location: London
Work Mode: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week
Job Type: Contract
We are looking for an experienced Kafka Admin Lead with strong expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Kafka administration, and production-grade streaming platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of Kafka internals, cloud environments, security, automation, monitoring, and high-availability architectures.
Experience Required:
- 12+ years of overall experience.
- 5–10 years of experience in Platform Engineering / SRE / DevOps.
- 3+ years of dedicated Kafka / Confluent administration experience in production environments.
Key Skills:
- Apache Kafka Administration
- Confluent Platform & Confluent Cloud
- Kafka Brokers, Controllers (KRaft), Partitions & Replication
- Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Control Center
- Kafka Security – mTLS, SASL, OAuth, Kerberos
- Kafka ACLs & Confluent RBAC
- Kafka Performance Tuning & JVM Optimization
- Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Monitoring
- Linux Administration & Performance Tuning
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Terraform Automation & GitOps Workflows
- Cloud Networking (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- High Availability & Multi-Region Architecture
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Key Responsibilities:
- Provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters including Apache Kafka KRaft/ZooKeeper-based deployments and Confluent Platform components.
- Manage Confluent Cloud resources and optimize cluster performance, scalability, and cost.
- Ensure high availability and resilience across multi-AZ and multi-region environments.
- Manage partitions, replication, ISR, rack awareness, quotas, throttling, and back-pressure strategies.
- Plan and execute Kafka upgrades, patching, backup, and restore activities.
- Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, secret management, and secure connectivity.
- Govern topic naming standards, retention policies, schema evolution, and PII handling.
- Monitor Kafka health using metrics, logs, and tracing platforms.
- Define and manage SLOs/SLIs including latency, consumer lag, broker health, and throughput.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks, partition skew, storage, network, and JVM-related issues.
- Automate Kafka cluster and topic lifecycle using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- Manage Kafka Connect distributed workers and connectors including JDBC, Debezium CDC, S3/ADLS/GCS, and Elasticsearch integrations.
- Administer Schema Registry, ksqlDB/Flink streaming workloads, and multi-tenant governance.
- Design secure, low-latency connectivity across data centres and cloud environments.
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Preferred Skills:
- Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK).
- CKA/CKAD Certification.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification.
- Cloud certifications across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) deployments.
If you have strong Kafka administration and Confluent Platform experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.
Interested candidates can share their updated CV at: veluri@primusglobal.com
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