وظيفة مسؤول منصة البث (Apache Kafka) شاغرة لدى EJADA في الرياض

Job Purpose:

The Kafka Streaming Platform Administrator is responsible for administering, securing, monitoring, and optimizing Apache Kafka environments to ensure the availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of enterprise event-streaming platforms. The role supports real-time data integration and streaming workloads by managing Kafka infrastructure, disaster recovery capabilities, capacity planning, platform security, and operational excellence in highly available and regulated environments.

Key Accountabilities:

• Administer, configure, monitor, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across production and non-production environments.
• Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, retention policies, and cluster performance settings.
• Implement and maintain platform security controls including TLS encryption, SASL authentication, ACLs, and Kerberos integration.
• Monitor platform health and availability using observability and monitoring solutions and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards for real-time visibility into platform performance.
• Plan and execute disaster recovery strategies, backup procedures, multi-cluster replication, and failover testing activities.
• Perform cluster capacity planning, scaling, performance tuning, upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), problem management, and service improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with application teams, data engineers, architects, and infrastructure teams to onboard new workloads and optimize cluster utilization.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, audit, and operational standards.
• Support automation initiatives to improve platform deployment, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability, scalability, and reliability.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka or equivalent certification.
• Additional certifications in Cloud, Linux Administration, Kubernetes, or Data Platforms.

Minimum Experience:

• +4 years of experience administering and supporting Apache Kafka production environments.
• Proven experience managing Kafka clusters in high-availability and mission-critical environments.
• Experience in security hardening, monitoring, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and operational support.
• Experience within banking, financial services, fintech, telecommunications, or other regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale event streaming and real-time data integration platforms.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Apache Kafka Administration and Operations.
• Kafka Cluster Provisioning, Configuration, and Scaling.
• Topic, Partition, Replication, and Retention Management.
• Kafka Security (TLS, SASL, ACLs, Kerberos).
• Kafka Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning.
• Disaster Recovery and Multi-Cluster Replication.
• MirrorMaker and Cluster Linking.
• Monitoring and Observability Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center).
• Linux Server Administration.
• Shell Scripting and Automation.
• Networking Fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Network Security).
• Docker and Kubernetes Administration.
• Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Backup, Recovery, and Business Continuity Planning.
• IT Operations and Platform Support.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Documentation, reporting, and operational governance.