Detailed Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Confluent Cloud & Kafka Engineer with 4–6 years of hands-on experience in Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Kafka administration, governance, security, monitoring, and Kafka-based application development. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing Kafka environments, implementing governance and security standards, supporting Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, troubleshooting production issues, and developing Kafka-based microservices and streaming applications.
Responsibilities
- Manage Confluent Cloud environments, Kafka clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, ACLs, and RBAC.
- Implement and maintain Kafka governance, onboarding, security, and compliance standards.
- Monitor cluster health, throughput, storage utilization, consumer lag, and overall Kafka performance.
- Administer and support Schema Registry, Cluster Linking, Stream Governance, and Data Contracts.
- Configure, onboard, monitor, and troubleshoot Kafka Connect source and sink connectors.
- Troubleshoot Kafka producer, consumer, networking, authentication, and authorization issues.
Must Have
- Apache Kafka / Confluent Cloud
- Kafka Administration & Cluster Management
- Java & Spring Boot
- Kafka Connect & Schema Registry
- Kafka Security, RBAC & ACLs
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Not Specified