Kafka Admin

Mandatory Skills
Experience in migrating Open-Source & Confluent Kafka cluster to Confluent cloud using confluent replicator.
Manage single and multi-node Kafka cluster deployed on VM, Docker and Kubernetes Container platform. Experience with Confluent Platform running on-prem and cloud.
Implementing wire encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper, Broker/Client, Connect cluster/connectors, Schema Registry, REST API, Producers/Consumers, Ksql.
Perform high-level, day-to-day administration and support functions.
Upgrades for the Kafka Cluster landscape comprising of Development, Test, Staging and Production/DR systems.
Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance, and overall health of the cluster.
Ability to work with various infrastructure, administration, and development teams across business units.
Create topics, setup Confluent Replicator to replicate the topics, create connect clusters, Schemas for the topics using Confluent Schema Registry
Configure various Opensource and licensed Kafka Source/Sink Connectors
Experience with Confluent ksql to query and process Kafka streams
Knowledge of Kafka Producer and Consumer APIs, Kafka Stream Processing, Confluent Ksql
Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
5 or more years of Admin experience
Preferred but Optional skills.
Experience in building Kafka deployment pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.
Worked in Public cloud environment such as Azure or AWS or GCP, preferably in Azure.