Job Title: Kafka Engineer
Experience: 5+ yrs
Location: Hyderabad or Bangalore (WFO-24*7 Shift)

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Confluent Kafka Engineer to design, deploy, and manage event streaming solutions using Confluent Platform (on-prem or Confluent Cloud). The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of Kafka internals, hands-on experience with Terraform, and Kubernetes-based deployments, with a solid focus on scalability, reliability, and automation in cloud or hybrid infrastructures.

Role and Responsibilities:
Architect, deploy, and maintain Confluent Kafka clusters in production using Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud.
Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, including creation of topics, service accounts, and cluster configurations.
Deploy Kafka and Confluent components (Brokers, Schema Registry, Connect, KSQL, Control Center) using Helm, Operators, or custom Kubernetes manifests.




Design Kafka infrastructure with high availability, security, and data integrity.
Implement Kafka Connectors (sink/source) to integrate with various data systems (DBs, S3, Elasticsearch, etc.).
Work with development teams to optimize producer/consumer pipelines and streaming applications.
Monitor Kafka cluster health, lag, throughput using Confluent Control Center, Prometheus, Grafana, or other monitoring tools.
Automate deployment pipelines and implement CI/CD for Kafka configurations and Terraform modules.
Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues within Kafka and supporting infrastructure.
Stay updated on Kafka and Confluent ecosystem best practices and contribute to platform evolution.

Education & Certifications: - Bachelors

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