Senior Kafka Administrator

Senior Kafka Administrator This role has been designed as Hybrid with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office Who We Are Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work We help companies connect protect analyze and act on their data and applications wherever they live from edge to cloud so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today s complex world Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what s next We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs We make bold moves together and are a force for good If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you Open up opportunities with HPE Job Family Definition Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams Responsible for providing technical support and or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers business needs and consequently for understanding customers businesses As trusted advisor create and maintain effective customer relationships so as to insure customer satisfaction Maintain knowledge of leading edge technologies and industry market domain knowledge Actively contribute to the company s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects Shape technical direction and technical strategies within the organization and for external customers Accountable for consistent and significant chargeability levels or expense relief for internal project teams and for assisting in meeting or exceeding revenue and customer satisfaction goals Contribute to organization s profitability by generating and cultivating new business opportunities and by providing technical support for deal proposal development Management Level Definition Contributions include applying developed subject matter expertise to solve common and sometimes complex technical problems and recommending alternatives where necessary Might act as project lead and provide assistance to lower level professionals Exercises independent judgment and consults with others to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives What you ll do Kafka Cluster Management Install configure and manage Kafka clusters on-premise cloud Handle broker upgrades partitioning replication and topic management Maintain ZooKeeper or KRaft-based configurations Performance Reliability Optimize Kafka brokers producers and consumers for low latency and high throughput Manage storage retention and log compaction policies Implement disaster recovery DR high availability HA and capacity planning strategies Monitoring Troubleshooting Monitor cluster health using tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK or Confluent Control Center Diagnose and resolve consumer lag broker failures and performance bottlenecks Develop automation scripts and runbooks for recurring tasks Security Governance Implement authentication authorization using SASL SSL TLS Kerberos or RBAC Enforce data encryption and compliance policies Collaborate with security teams for vulnerability management Collaboration Support Work with developers to onboard applications into Kafka Integrate Kafka with CI CD pipelines and data lake ecosystems What you need to bring Skills Experience 7 years of Kafka administration in large-scale environments Strong understanding of Kafka internals brokers topics partitions offsets Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka Schema Registry Kafka Connect KSQL Proficiency in Linux system administration networking and shell scripting Experience with automation tools Ansible Terraform Python Exposure to cloud-managed Kafka services AWS MSK Azure Event Hubs GCP Pub Sub Preferred Knowledge Real-time data streaming tools Flink Spark Streaming or NiFi Integration with data lakes microservices and enterprise messaging systems Familiarity with GitOps and container orchestration Kubernetes Docker Education Certifications Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science IT or related field Preferred certifications Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka CCAK Cloud platform certifications AWS Azure or GCP Additional Skills Accountability Accountability Active Learning Active Listening Bias Business Growth Client Expectations Management Coaching Creativity Critical Thinking Cross-Functional Teamwork Customer Centric Solutions Customer Relationship Management CRM Design Thinking Empathy Follow-Through Growth Mindset Information Technology IT Infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service IaaS Intellectual Curiosity Inactive Long Term Planning Managing Ambiguity Process Improvements Product Services Relationship Building 5 more What We Can Offer You Health Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical financial and emotional wellbeing Personal Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are the better we all are We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs We make bold moves together and are a force for good Let s Stay Connected Follow on Instagram to see the latest on people culture and tech at HPE india operations Job Services Job Level TCP 03 HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity Veterans Disabled LGBT employer We do not discriminate on the basis of race gender or any other protected category and all decisions we make 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