Job Title
Kafka Engineer / Kafka SME
Experience
5-12 Years
Location
Noida, Campus, Hyderabad, Pune
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer with strong expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building scalable, high-performance streaming data platforms, integrating enterprise applications, and ensuring reliability, availability, and performance of Kafka ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
Kafka Platform Development
• Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade streaming solutions using Apache Kafka.
• Build real-time data pipelines and event-driven integration architectures.
• Develop Kafka producers, consumers, and stream processing applications.
• Implement topic design, partitioning strategies, replication, and retention policies.
• Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
Platform Administration & Support
• Install, configure, monitor, and maintain Kafka clusters.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning,
and troubleshooting.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Monitor cluster health using observability and monitoring tools.
• Resolve production incidents and provide L3 support.
Integration & Development
• Integrate Kafka with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and microservices.
• Develop real-time data ingestion and streaming solutions.
• Work closely with application teams to define event schemas and messaging standards.
• Implement Schema Registry and data governance standards.
DevOps & Automation
• Automate deployment and operational activities using CI/CD pipelines.
• Support containerized Kafka deployments on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) solutions.
• Implement security controls including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
Required Technical Skills
Kafka Expertise
• Solid hand
📌 Kafka Developer (Noida)
🏢 Coforge
📍 Noida