Kafka Admin Lead-6months-London

Kirtana consulting is looking for Kafka Admin Lead for 6months rolling contract in London. Job description: Role Title: 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/region deployments; manage partition replication, min.insync.replicas (ISR), and rack awareness. Implement and maintain client quotas, broker quotas, throttling, and back pressure strategies. Plan and execute upgrades/patching with zero/minimal downtime; maintain version currency against EOL and security advisories. Own backup/restore workflows for metadata (eg, 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/PrivateLink). Govern topic naming conventions, retention policies, schema evolution rules (backward/fully compatible), and PII handling. Maintain audit trails (broker, Schema Registry, Control Center, Confluent Cloud audit logs) and compliance artifacts (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA/PCI as applicable). Coordinate ..... full job details .....