Kafka Admin Lead-6months-London
- Hiring Organisation
- Kirtana Consulting
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Contract Rate
- GBP Annual
Kafka Admin Lead Minimum years of experience: 12+ years Responsibilities Provision, configure, and manage Kafka clusters (Apache Kafka KRaft or ZooKeeper-backed if Legacy), Confluent Platform components (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, REST Proxy, Control Center), and Confluent Cloud resources. Ensure high availability (HA) and resilience across multi AZ/… cluster configs), Schema Registry, and Connect configs Implement authentication (mTLS/SASL: SCRAM, OAUTHBEARER with IdP, or Kerberos if Legacy) and authorization (Kafka ACLs, Confluent RBAC). Enforce encryption in transit and at rest, secret management (Vault/AKV/SSM), secure endpoint exposure, and private connectivity (VPC peering/ ...