Kafka Admin Lead-6months-London
- Hiring Organisation
- Kirtana Consulting
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Contract Rate
- GBP Annual
handling, compaction and retention settings, and tune GC/JVM for sustained throughput. Implement consumer lag monitoring and alerting with actionable runbooks to prevent data loss or SLA breaches. Model workload growth, topic/partition scaling, storage/IOPS, network egress/ingress, and broker sizing. For Confluent Cloud … life cycle using Terraform (providers for Kafka/Confluent), Helm, GitOps workflows. Operate and scale Kafka Connect with distributed workers; manage connectors (JDBC, Debezium CDC, S3/ADLS/GCS, Elasticsearch, etc.), transforms (SMTs), and converter settings. Administer Schema Registry (compatibility levels, subject naming strategies, serializers/deserializers, schema size ...