Redis and Kafka Database Administrator

Redis and Kafka Database Administrator

Experience Level: Senior

About Company:

Nomiso is a product and services engineering company. We are a team of Software Engineers Architects Managers and Cloud Experts with expertise in Technology and Delivery Management. Our mission is to Empower and Enhance the lives of our customers through efficient solutions for their complex business problems.

At Nomiso we encourage entrepreneurial spirit - to learn grow and improve. A great workplace thrives on ideas and opportunities. That is a part of our DNA. Were in pursuit of colleagues who share similar passions are nimble and thrive when challenged. We offer a positive stimulating and fun environment with opportunities to grow a fast-paced approach to innovation and a place where your views are valued and encouraged.

We invite you to push your boundaries and join us in fulfilling your career aspirations!

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Level 3 Redis and Kafka DBA to manage and support our real-time data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in managing monitoring tuning and troubleshooting high-throughput low-latency distributed systems. This role will involve working closely with development DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure optimal performance and availability of data services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• SME in at least one functional module of the system or service
• Design and quality ownership of the service owned as the the SME
• Say/do ratio of > 95% in execution
• Code reviews and quality gatekeeper for the SME area
• Assist and mentor junior members
• Responsible for enforcing code reviews and test coverage
• Ensure no regressions in the modules owned
• Serve on interview panels and help grow the organization

Roles & Responsibilities

Redis Administration

• Manage and maintain Redis clusters (standalone sentinel and Redis Enterprise setups).
• Perform upgrades patching and capacity planning.
• Configure persistence (RDB AOF) and high availability.
• Monitor Redis performance and tune configuration parameters.
• Handle backup/recovery and disaster recovery planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Kafka Administration

• Deploy configure and maintain Kafka clusters (including Zookeeper).
• Monitor Kafka performance tune parameters and ensure message reliability.
• Manage topic creation partitioning replication and retention policies.
• Handle security configurations (SSL SASL ACLs).
• Support schema registry Kafka Connect Kafka Streams and MirrorMaker.
• Troubleshoot consumer/producer lag and broker-related issues.

L3 Support

• Act as an escalation point for complex incidents and root cause analysis.
• Automate common DBA tasks using scripting (Python Bash etc.).
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps to integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Must Have Skills:

• Overall 7Years and 5 years in database/infrastructure management roles.
• 2 years of hands-on experience with Redis.
• 1 years of hands-on experience with Kafka.
• Proficiency in Linux systems administration.
• Strong scripting knowledge (Bash Python or similar).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK etc.).
• Knowledge of container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).
• Understanding of networking firewalls DNS and load balancing.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Redis Enterprise and Confluent Kafka.
• Certifications in Redis/Kafka/Linux.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
• Experience in PCI/HIPAA-compliant environments.

Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field.
• Certifications (Preferred): MongoDB Certified DBA Associate or Professional.
• Other relevant certifications in database management.

Location : Bangalore

About Nomiso:

Nomiso is a product and services engineering company. We are a team of Software Engineers Architects Managers and Cloud Experts with expertise in Technology and Delivery Management.

Our mission is to Empower and Enhance the lives of our customers through efficient solutions for their complex business problems.

At Nomiso we encourage entrepreneurial spirit - to learn grow and improve. A great workplace thrives on ideas and opportunities. That is a part of our DNA. Were in pursuit of colleagues who share similar passions are nimble and thrive when challenged. We offer a positive stimulating and fun environment with opportunities to grow a fast-paced approach to innovation and a place where your views are valued and encouraged.

We invite you to push your boundaries and join us in fulfilling your career aspirations!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to diversity equity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or any other protected characteristics.