Adroit People Limited (UK)
Apache Kafka Specialist
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This role is for an Apache Kafka Specialist in Leeds, UK, on a 6-month contract, 3 days/week. Requires 5+ years in application integration, 2+ years in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka, and experience with monitoring tools and disaster recovery planning.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
January 17, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#API (Application Programming Interface) #Cloud #Prometheus #Zookeeper #LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) #Clustering #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Monitoring #REST API #Grafana #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Kubernetes #Oracle #Disaster Recovery #Apache Kafka #Storage #Automation #PostgreSQL #Splunk #Databases
Role description
Greetings
We are Hiring Apache Kafka Specialist
Location : Leeds, UK
6 Months contract
3 days/week mandatory
Experience:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Confluent / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Responsibilities:
Manage Kafka Cluster build, including Design, Infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Build and support producer / consumer apps
Implement encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper, Broker/Client, Connect cluster/connectors, Schema Registry, REST API, Producers/Consumers, KSQL
SSL Certificate management including public key management
Setting up monitoring tools such as SPLUNK, Prometheus, Grafana to provide metrics from various Kafka cluster components (eg., Broker, Zookeeper, Connect, REST proxy, Mirror Maker, Schema Registry, KSQL)
Undertake Lifecycle Management across the Kafka on premise environments.
Research and recommend innovative ways to maintain the environment and ensure automation is undertaken.
Undertake regular assessments of the platform health and stability, create improvement plans and ensure automation/lifecycle management is undertaken.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Open Source / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Experience in Containerisation (Openshift / Kubernetes).
Interaction with Oracle / PostgreSQL databases
Experience in Disaster recovery planning & testing for the Middleware Services block application and supporting Product Grid block application testing
Experience in Setting up monitoring tools for Kafka clusters.
Knowledge of Infrastructure, Network topologies and Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS)
Understand clustering and virtualisation technologies
Architect, being able to attend Architecture forums and demonstrate pros/cons of different solutions
Strong Communications and ability to work with business areas+
Greetings
We are Hiring Apache Kafka Specialist
Location : Leeds, UK
6 Months contract
3 days/week mandatory
Experience:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Confluent / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Responsibilities:
Manage Kafka Cluster build, including Design, Infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Build and support producer / consumer apps
Implement encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper, Broker/Client, Connect cluster/connectors, Schema Registry, REST API, Producers/Consumers, KSQL
SSL Certificate management including public key management
Setting up monitoring tools such as SPLUNK, Prometheus, Grafana to provide metrics from various Kafka cluster components (eg., Broker, Zookeeper, Connect, REST proxy, Mirror Maker, Schema Registry, KSQL)
Undertake Lifecycle Management across the Kafka on premise environments.
Research and recommend innovative ways to maintain the environment and ensure automation is undertaken.
Undertake regular assessments of the platform health and stability, create improvement plans and ensure automation/lifecycle management is undertaken.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Open Source / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Experience in Containerisation (Openshift / Kubernetes).
Interaction with Oracle / PostgreSQL databases
Experience in Disaster recovery planning & testing for the Middleware Services block application and supporting Product Grid block application testing
Experience in Setting up monitoring tools for Kafka clusters.
Knowledge of Infrastructure, Network topologies and Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS)
Understand clustering and virtualisation technologies
Architect, being able to attend Architecture forums and demonstrate pros/cons of different solutions
Strong Communications and ability to work with business areas+
