iXceed Solutions
Kafka Administrator
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Kafka Admin Lead
Location: London, UK (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Contract: 6 Months
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Kafka Admin Lead to join a large enterprise data platform team. You will be responsible for administering, securing, monitoring, and optimizing enterprise Kafka environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational excellence across mission-critical streaming platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and manage Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments.
- Provision, configure, and maintain Kafka clusters and Confluent components including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, Control Center, and REST Proxy.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, replication, and performance across Kafka environments.
- Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and cluster maintenance with minimal downtime.
- Manage authentication, authorization, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and platform security.
- Configure and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, retention policies, and schema governance.
- Monitor platform health using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX, and logging solutions.
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and optimize broker and cluster performance.
- Support Kafka Connect, distributed connectors, and streaming integrations.
- Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to maintain a secure and scalable streaming platform.
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Required Skills
- 12+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years of hands-on Kafka/Confluent administration in production.
- Strong administration experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.
- Experience with Kafka KRaft and ZooKeeper environments.
- Strong knowledge of Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Control Center.
- Expertise in Kafka security including ACLs, RBAC, SASL, SCRAM, OAuth, mTLS, and TLS.
- Experience with Kafka monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, JMX, and enterprise monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of cloud networking including VPC/VNET, PrivateLink, DNS, and Load Balancers.
- Experience working with Azure, AWS, or GCP environments.
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Preferred Skills
- Confluent Cloud administration.
- Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK).
- Apache Flink.
- Debezium CDC.
- Elasticsearch integrations.
- CI/CD and GitOps.
- Relevant Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud certifications.
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