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Position Title: Senior Kafka Engineer
Job Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai/Pune/Mumbai
Years of Exp: 4+years of relevant experience is must
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days WFO is must)
Notice Period: Immediate to 15days
Njoyn id: J0126-1777
Shift Timings: Night Shifts (Night 8 Pm to 4 AM)
Position Description
We are seeking a highly skilled advanced Confluent Kafka Engineer with deep, systems-level expertise in designing, operating, and governing large-scale distributed streaming platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. You will work closely with application teams, architects, and DevOps to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable messaging services across the organization.
. Mastery of Apache Kafka and the Confluent ecosystem, including topic/partition architecture, producer–consumer semantics, exactly-once processing, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Schema Registry, REST Proxy, and end-to-end stream governance.
. Proven experience operating Kafka on-prem and in cloud environments (Azure and GCP), with strong understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery design patterns
. Deep hands-on expertise with Confluent Replicator and Cluster Linking, including cross-cluster data replication, latency trade-offs, failure handling, and multi-region architectures
. Strong experience in Kafka cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, upgrades, and capacity planning in complex enterprise environments
. Advanced experience with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK), including CRD-level configuration, JVM tuning, pod-level resource isolation, storage and network optimization
. High proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, including Kafka-specific monitoring, alerting, and performance diagnostics
. Strong DevOps and CI/CD understanding for automating Kafka infrastructure, connectors, and streaming applications
. High expertise in security and access provisioning, including LDAP integration, RBAC models, and automated entitlement scripts
. Experience integrating Kafka with enterprise platforms such as MuleSoft, Databricks, SAP, MFT/IFT systems, and microservices
. Proficiency in Python and Bash, with strong Linux systems knowledge
. Demonstrated capability in cluster cost optimization, performance tuning, and resource efficiency at scale
. Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Dynatrace. Prometheus, Grafana).
Platform Ownership & Leadership
. Acts as L3 support owner for the Kafka platform, leading deep-dive troubleshooting, RCA, and production incident resolution
. Strong experience documenting and operating platforms using Confluence, including standards, runbooks, and architectural guidelines
. Ability to drive architectural and design decisions, define long-term Kafka strategy, and influence platform evolution across teams
. Operates with a distributed-systems mindset, anticipating failure modes and trade-offs
. Treats Kafka as a mission-critical data platform, not middleware
. Comfortable owning complex, multi-cluster, production-critical streaming ecosystems
. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
. Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
. Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
Required Qualification: BE/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech/B.Sc (or equivalent)
Note: Freshers and candidates with less than 4 years of experience will not be considered. Please apply only if the job description and experience criteria are met.
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