Deputy Manager|Lead|Kafka Admin|Pune

The IT Operations Specialist focuses upon activities that help to identify and manage the changing customer / business / user needs (regarding IT requirements) and ensure customer satisfaction with Vodafone s IT products and services in line with the Customer Service Management strategy. Providing technical advice and administration across the IT lifecycle for all end-users.The IT Operations Specialist has a good understanding of established concepts and procedures in IT operations including administration and maintenance of assigned applications, services, systems and solutions, incident management, problem management, change and release management and vendor management, to drive improvements through innovation, best practice techniques, and collaboration.Typically reports to the IT Operations Manager.

Who you are

Working experience in Kafka, Kafka setup, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect
Operations handling -
• Fundamentals of Apache/Confluent Kafka
• Kafka architecture, Managing a Kafka Cluster
• Broker, Zookeeper awareness and management
• Creation of topics, configuring partitions, replications
• Offset awareness.
• Providing Durability, Data replication and retention
• Optimizing Kafka’s Performance
• Kafka Security
• Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect

Troubleshooting -
Awareness in managing -
• In sync replicas
• Under-replicated partitions, or too many partitions per topic
• Unbalanced partition assignment
• Unbalanced partition assignment
• Offline partitions
• Kafka Liveness Check Problems
• Performance impact of New Brokers
• Long-Term Storage Solution
• Perfect Data Retention Settings
• Upscaling and Topic Rebalancing
• Issue with replicating the Topic Offsets with Mirror Maker.

Should have awareness in-
• Unix, Shell scripting / any scripting awareness is an added advantage.
• ITIL methodology
• Skills in messaging system technologies desirable
• Corresponding Incident- and problem-management process

Operational Support and awareness -
• L2 (Operational Support &Troubleshooting along with Deployment & configuration Knowhow)
• Support new and changed applications in preproduction and production environments.
• Ensure proper implementation in production environments.
• Environment maintenance ensuring proper functionality of technical application interfaces.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What's in it for you

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, ****** orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

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