Kafka Administrator | Confluent Platform Engineer | KRaft Migration | AWS MSK | Terraform | 3.5 Years | Confluent Certified | Kafka Connect | Prometheus | Grafana | Jenkins | Python | Docker | Ansible | Linux
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Confluent Certified Kafka Platform Engineer with 3.5 years of experience in designing, administering, automating, and supporting enterprise-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments across Dev, QA, and Production on AWS. Strong expertise in Apache Kafka Open Source, Confluent Platform, KRaft architecture, Kafka Connect, AWS MSK, disaster recovery replication, monitoring, platform security, and infrastructure automation.
Hands-on experience in Kafka broker administration, topic management, replication, ISR monitoring, partition rebalancing, retention management, consumer lag troubleshooting, rolling restarts, and production incident management. Led large-scale ZooKeeper-to-KRaft migration across 15 Kafka clusters with zero downtime, eliminating 45 servers and achieving 33% infrastructure cost reduction.
Experienced in implementing Kafka security using SSL/TLS, SASL/SCRAM authentication, ACL authorization, and secure cross-cluster communication. Built and supported
Kafka Platform Engineer with 3.5 years of experience designing, administering, automating, and supporting enterprise-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments across Dev, QA, and Production on AWS.
Experienced in Apache Kafka Open Source, Confluent Platform, KRaft architecture, Kafka Connect, AWS MSK, disaster recovery replication, monitoring, security, and infrastructure automation.
Led large-scale ZooKeeper-to-KRaft migration across 15 Kafka clusters with zero downtime, eliminating 45 servers and achieving 33% infrastructure cost reduction.
Strong hands-on experience in Kafka broker administration, topic management, replication, ISR monitoring, consumer lag troubleshooting, SSL/TLS, SASL/SCRAM authentication, ACL authorization, Kafka Connect pipelines, and production incident management.
Skilled in Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Python boto3, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, GitOps workflows, AWS infrastructure, and enterprise Kafka platform operations.
Experienced in implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) replication using AWS MSK Replicator, MirrorMaker2, and Cluster Linking across hybrid Kafka environments.
