Senior Kafka Engineer

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 strong 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