Kafka Admin Engineer
- Hiring Organisation
- Ubique Systems UK Limited
- Location
- Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Contract Rate
- GBP Annual
1. Core Kafka Expertise (Must-Have) Kafka architecture: brokers, topics, partitions, replication Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ZooKeeper/Kraft Topic & partition management, consumer groups Performance tuning, retention, throughput optimisation Cluster setup, upgrades, scaling and failover Troubleshooting (eg lag, ISR, leader issues) Security: SSL/TLS, ACLs … authentication, encryption 2. DevOps & Automation Skills (Must-Have) CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.) Configuration management and deployment automation 3. Kubernetes & Container Platform Expertise (Must-Have) Understanding of Kubernetes technologies Helm charts, ArgoCD/GitOps workflows ConfigMaps, Secrets, cert management Rolling updates ...