Job Requirements

Experience: 4–6 years

Required Skills
Kafka Operations: Confluent Kafka ; cluster setup and maintenance.
Cluster Management: High availability, cross-site replication,ZooKeeper.
Schema Registry & Topic Governance: Confluent Schema Registry or equivalent.
Monitoring: Prometheus JMX Exporter, Dynatrace Kafka plugins, Elastic.
Security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC.
Integration & APIs: Kafka REST API, connectors.

Key Concepts
Event-driven architecture and distributed system principles.
Performance tuning and throughput optimization.
Disaster recovery strategies for Kafka clusters.
Governance, schema evolution, and topic lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities
Operate and scale Kafka clusters reliably.
Ensure HA and cross-site replication.
Implement governance, topic management, and secure access.
Integrate and monitor Kafka metrics/logs into observability dashboards.
Ensure proper ACLs and RBAC policies for producers/consumers
Respond to Kafka-related incidents and outages

Work Experience 2-5Years

📌 Kafka Engineer Hyderabad (India)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 India