diff --git a/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kafka-scram-users-job.yaml b/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kafka-scram-users-job.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59e6b98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kafka-scram-users-job.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+---
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: kafka-scram-users
+  namespace: kafka
+  annotations:
+    kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/force: enabled
+spec:
+  backoffLimit: 2
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      annotations:
+        sidecar.istio.io/inject: "false"
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject: "true"
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-pre-populate-only: "true"
+        vault.hashicorp.com/auth-path: auth/kubernetes
+        vault.hashicorp.com/role: kafka
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-admin: secrets/data/kafka/bootstrap
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-admin: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/bootstrap" -}}{{ index .Data.data "interBrokerPassword" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-pm-user: secrets/data/kafka/apps/pm
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-pm-user: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/pm" -}}{{ index .Data.data "username" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-pm-pass: secrets/data/kafka/apps/pm
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-pm-pass: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/pm" -}}{{ index .Data.data "password" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-issues-user: secrets/data/kafka/apps/issues
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-issues-user: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/issues" -}}{{ index .Data.data "username" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-issues-pass: secrets/data/kafka/apps/issues
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-issues-pass: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/issues" -}}{{ index .Data.data "password" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-flows-user: secrets/data/kafka/apps/flows
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-flows-user: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/flows" -}}{{ index .Data.data "username" }}{{- end -}}
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-secret-flows-pass: secrets/data/kafka/apps/flows
+        vault.hashicorp.com/agent-inject-template-flows-pass: |
+          {{- with secret "secrets/data/kafka/apps/flows" -}}{{ index .Data.data "password" }}{{- end -}}
+    spec:
+      serviceAccountName: kafka-kafka-contour
+      restartPolicy: Never
+      imagePullSecrets:
+        - name: regcred
+      nodeSelector:
+        dedicated: generic
+      securityContext:
+        runAsUser: 1001
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        fsGroup: 1001
+      containers:
+        - name: kafka-scram-users
+          image: cr.yandex/crp3ccidau046kdj8g9q/contour/kafka-nn/kafka:4.0.0-debian-12-r10
+          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS
+              value: -Xmx256m
+          command:
+            - /bin/bash
+            - -ec
+            - |
+              K=/opt/bitnami/kafka/bin
+              ADMIN=kafka-kafka-contour-controller-0.kafka-kafka-contour-controller-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9094
+              CLIENT=kafka-kafka-contour.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9092
+              S=/vault/secrets
+              rc=0
+              printf 'security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT\nsasl.mechanism=PLAIN\nsasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="inter_broker_user" password="%s";\n' "$(cat $S/admin)" > /tmp/admin.conf
+              for app in pm issues flows; do
+                u=$(cat $S/$app-user); p=$(cat $S/$app-pass)
+                if [ -z "$u" ] || [ -z "$p" ]; then
+                  echo "$app: empty username or password in kafka/apps/$app"; rc=1; continue
+                fi
+                if [ -f "/tmp/pw-$u" ]; then
+                  if [ "$(cat /tmp/pw-$u)" != "$p" ]; then
+                    echo "$app: user $u already set from another app with a different password, skipped"; rc=1
+                  else
+                    echo "$app: user $u already set, same password"
+                  fi
+                  continue
+                fi
+                printf '%s' "$p" > "/tmp/pw-$u"
+                $K/kafka-configs.sh --bootstrap-server $ADMIN --command-config /tmp/admin.conf --alter --add-config "SCRAM-SHA-512=[iterations=4096,password=$p]" --entity-type users --entity-name "$u" > /dev/null
+                echo "$app: SCRAM-SHA-512 set for user $u"
+              done
+              sleep 5
+              for app in pm issues flows; do
+                u=$(cat $S/$app-user); p=$(cat $S/$app-pass)
+                printf 'security.protocol=SASL_SSL\nsasl.mechanism=SCRAM-SHA-512\nssl.truststore.type=PEM\nssl.truststore.location=/kafka-ca/ca.crt\nsasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required username="%s" password="%s";\n' "$u" "$p" > /tmp/$app.conf
+                if $K/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server $CLIENT --command-config /tmp/$app.conf --list > /dev/null; then
+                  echo "$app: login as $u over SASL_SSL ok"
+                else
+                  echo "$app: login as $u over SASL_SSL FAILED"; rc=1
+                fi
+              done
+              $K/kafka-configs.sh --bootstrap-server $ADMIN --command-config /tmp/admin.conf --describe --entity-type users
+              rm -f /tmp/*.conf /tmp/pw-*
+              exit $rc
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 50m
+              memory: 384Mi
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: kafka-ca
+              mountPath: /kafka-ca
+              readOnly: true
+      volumes:
+        - name: kafka-ca
+          secret:
+            secretName: kafka-kafka-contour-tls
+            items:
+              - key: ca.crt
+                path: ca.crt
diff --git a/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kustomization.yaml b/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kustomization.yaml
index f60b1c1..dc521fe 100644
--- a/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/infrastructure/kafka/uralkal/kustomization.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
   - ../base
+  - kafka-scram-users-job.yaml
 patches:
   - path: kafka.yaml