Kafka Cloud Engineer Offshore

- Overall experience of 12-15 years and should have at least 6+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Schema Registry & Kafka Connect.

- Any Certification in Azure Cloud and Kafka is preferred.

Role Overview

The Kafka Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing largescale, real-time event streaming architectures using Apache Kafka/Confluent Kafka. This role involves creating robust, scalable, highly performant data pipelines and event-driven systems that support enterprise-grade workloads. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, cloud-native patterns, and architectural governance.

Key Responsibilities:

Architectural Design & Strategy:

- Design end-to-end Kafka-based event streaming architectures for high-throughput, low-latency environments.
- Define architectural standards, best practices, reusable patterns, schemas, and governance models.
- Enable event-driven architecture (EDA) adoption across platforms and business units.
- Develop data modelling standards for events, Avro/JSON schemas, serialization formats, and schema evolution strategies.
- Implement enterprise-grade security: ACLs, RBAC, encryption, network segmentation, auditing, and compliance.
- Implement disaster recovery frameworks in seamless manner.

Platform Engineering & Implementation

Architect and oversee deployment of self-managed Kafka clusters.

- Lead capacity planning, cluster sizing,



replication, partitioning strategies, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Implement Kafka Connect and ksqlDB Spark streaming pipelines.

Cross-Functional Leadership

- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, data, and application teams to drive Kafka architecture adoption.
- Provide mentoring and technical leadership to engineering teams on Kafka patterns and anti-patterns.
- Review solution architectures, ensure alignment with enterprise standards, and participate in architecture governance boards.

Technical Expertise:

- 6+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, Schema Registry & Kafka Connect.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, pub/sub messaging, stream processing, and distributed systems.
- Experience with stream processing frameworks: Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, or ksqlDB.
- Robust understanding of DevOps and automation tools: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) for deploying Kafka or managed services.
- Proficiency in languages such as Java, Scala, Python, or Go.
- Strong knowledge on Kubernetes and helm
- Monitoring and observability frameworks like Prometheus and Grafana

Soft Skills:

- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to lead architectural discussions and drive decisions.
- Strong documentation and presentation abilities.

📌 Kafka Cloud Architect Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Alphacom Systems and Solutions
📍 Hyderabad