Lead Consultant | Java | Apache

Description: Job Title: Lead Consultant | Confluent Kafka

Work Location & Reporting Address: San Antonio, TX 78215 or Irvine, CA 92618 (Hybrid)

Vendor Rate: ***

Contract duration: 6 months

Target Start Date: 01 Sep 2026

Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes

Interview Process (Is face to face required?) Virtual/Video interviews

Job Details:

Minimum years of experience required: 10+ years

Certification needed: No

Must Have Skills:

• Confluent kafka
• Client facing role
• Team handling skills

Detailed Job Description:

Confluent Platform (CP) and Confluent Cloud:

• Collaborate with Kafka distribution vendors (e.g., Confluent) or cloud providers for support on Kafka-specific issues.
• Set up/Fine Tune alerts for critical events (e.g., broker failure, data loss).
• Troubleshoot Kafka connectivity issues, consumer group problems, and data serialization errors
• Use observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Conduktor etc.) for service health
• Understand Different Kafka components (Replicator, Connector, Zookeeper, KSQL etc.) involved within the landscape and its use cases
• Leverage DevSecOps (CI/CD) to perform Admin activities using Terraform
• Collate all the configurations of Kafka like Users, ACL, Topics, connector configuration, tired 1 application etc.
• Platform Maintenance Activities:
• Upgrades (Kafka, Conduktor, Spring boot etc.)
• Patching
• Certificate renewal activities
• Debug issues related to AVRO Schemas mismatch, Consumer lag, user permissions, etc.
• Collaborate with product teams for new releases and documentation
• Minor enhancements and automations for continuous improvements
• Maintain DR runbooks and execute DR as per Risk and Security guidelines
• Vulnerability remediation reported via standard UVM process
• Debug issues related to custom Kafka client applications written in Java, .NET, Python, and Spring Boot
• Autosys | Autosys Agents Installation and maintenance
• Autosys | Autosys Services Maintenance (Patching, Upgrades, Checkouts)

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