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A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio
In this role you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
We are looking for an experienced Kafka Administrator to join our team and manage enterprise-grade Kafka environments. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Confluent Platform Kubernetes/OpenShift and Kafka security configurations. This role requires working in US regular hours (8 PM to 5 AM Philippines time) to support global operations and ensure high availability scalability and security of Kafka clusters.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and maintain Kafka clusters for high availability and performance.
- Deploy and manage Confluent Platform using CFK (Confluent for Kubernetes) on OpenShift/Kubernetes .
- Implement and manage Kafka security using SASL_SSL RBAC ACLs and role bindings.
- Configure and support ClusterLink and Replicators for cross-cluster communication.
- Set up and manage Active-Passive clusters using CFK.
- Integrate and manage Confluent Connectors such as IBM MQ JDBC S3 and Snowflake.
- Work with CDC connectors for real-time data replication.
- Collaborate with development teams on Python/Spring Boot Kafka applications .
- Utilize GitHub GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for CI/CD and automation.
- Monitor troubleshoot and optimize Kafka performance and reliability.
- Should be amenable to work IST
- At least 5 years of experience as Kafka Administrator
- At least 2 years of experience using CFK (Confluent for Kubernetes) build Confluent Platform on OpenShift or Kubernetes
- Kafka security using SASL_SSL and knowledge RBAC ( rolebiddings acl etc)
- Working experience on ClusterLink and Replicators
- Experience in configuring Active-Passive clusters using CFK
- Working experience on Confluent Connector like IBM MQ Confluent JDBC S3 snowflake
- Working experience on CDC connectors
- At least two years of working experience in Kubernetes/ OpenShift
- Exposure to Python /Springboot Kafka applications
- Working experience using Github github actions and argoCD etc
- Confluent Certified Administrator or equivalent certification.
- Experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for Kafka clusters.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana Confluent Control Center).
- Strong scripting skills for automation.
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud deployments and multi-region Kafka strategies.
- Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.