About Atos Group
Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 56,000 employees and annual revenue of approximately €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under the Atos and Eviden brands. The Group provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions and is committed to a secure and decarbonized future.
Role
Senior Kafka Administrator
Location: Mumbai / Bangalore / Chennai
Shift time: 6:00 PM IST - 3:00 AM IST
Job Summary
Atos is seeking a Senior Kafka Solutions expert with 10+ years of overall IT industry experience, including 5–8 years of deep, hands-on Apache Kafka administration in large-scale production environments. The ideal candidate will own and operate mission-critical, multi-cluster Kafka platforms designed for high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant event streaming across hybrid and cloud-native ecosystems.
The role includes defining and executing a 3–5 year strategic roadmap for Kafka and enterprise event-streaming platforms while remaining deeply technical in cluster architecture, platform reliability, performance tuning, and operational governance.
Core Responsibilities
- Kafka platform architecture and ownership
- Deep Kafka administration and operations
- Event-driven architecture strategy
- DevOps, automation, and platform engineering
- Cloud and Kubernetes integration
- Monitoring, observability, and reliability engineering
Mandatory Experience
- 10+ years of total IT industry experience in distributed systems, middleware, or platform engineering
- 5–8 years of hands-on Kafka administration experience in production environments
- Experience managing clusters with 10+ brokers, high partition counts of 10K+, and TB–PB scale data retention
- Proven experience in performance tuning and incident response for high-throughput Kafka systems
- Deep understanding of Kafka internals, including brokers, ZooKeeper and KRaft, producers and consumers, ISR mechanics, partition leadership, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams
Technical Stack Expectations
- Messaging and streaming: Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, MirrorMaker 2 / Cluster Linking, and the Kafka Connect ecosystem
- Cloud and infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS and/or GCP, Terraform, and Ansible
- DevOps and CI/CD: GitHub / GitLab, JIRA, Argo CD, and CI/CD pipeline integration
- Scripting and automation: Python and shell scripting
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has operated Kafka as a platform owner, not just a consumer
- Is comfortable debugging issues at the broker JVM level
- Has a strong background in distributed systems reliability engineering
- Can translate business throughput requirements into partitioning and replication strategies
- Is confident presenting Kafka strategy to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders
Atos embeds diversity and inclusion in its DNA and is committed to a fair work environment. Atos is also recognized for its environmental, social, and governance commitments.