Streaming Platform Administrator (Apache Kafka)

Job Purpose: The Kafka Streaming Platform Administrator is responsible for administering, securing, monitoring, and optimizing Apache Kafka environments to ensure the availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of enterprise event-streaming platforms. The role supports real-time data integration and streaming workloads by managing Kafka infrastructure, disaster recovery capabilities, capacity planning, platform security, and operational excellence in highly available and regulated environments. Key Accountabilities: - Administer, configure, monitor, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across production and non-production environments. - Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, retention policies, and cluster performance settings. - Implement and maintain platform security controls including TLS encryption, SASL authentication, ACLs, and Kerberos integration. - Monitor platform health and availability using observability and monitoring solutions and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks. - Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards for real-time visibility into platform performance. - Plan and execute disaster recovery strategies, backup procedures, multi-cluster replication, and failover testing activities. - Perform cluster capacity planning, scaling, performance tuning, upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities. - Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation. - Support incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), problem management, and service improvement initiatives. - Collaborate with application teams, data engineers, architects, and infrastructure teams to onboard new workloads and optimize cluster utilization. - Ensure compliance with security, governance, audit, and operational standards. - Support automation initiatives to improve platform deployment, monitoring, and operational efficiency. - Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability, scalability, and reliability. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field. - Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka or equivalent certification. - Additional certifications in Cloud, Linux Administration, Kubernetes, or Data Platforms. Minimum Experience: - +4 years of experience administering and supporting Apache Kafka production environments. - Proven experience managing Kafka clusters in high-availability and mission-critical environments. - Experience in security hardening, monitoring, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and operational support. - Experience within banking, financial services, fintech, telecommunications, or other regulated industries. - Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale event streaming and real-time data integration platforms. Job-Specific Skills: - Apache Kafka Administration and Operations. - Kafka Cluster Provisioning, Configuration, and Scaling. - Topic, Partition, Replication, and Retention Management. - Kafka Security (TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kerberos). - Kafka Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning. - Disaster Recovery and Multi-Cluster Replication. - MirrorMaker and Cluster Linking. - Monitoring and Observability Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center). - Linux Server Administration. - Shell Scripting and Automation. - Networking Fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Network Security). - Docker and Kubernetes Administration. - Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA). - Backup, Recovery, and Business Continuity Planning. - IT Operations and Platform Support. - Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills. - Documentation, reporting, and operational governance.

• Streaming Platform Developer (Apache Kafka)

  EJADA · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia