Senior Confluent Kafka / Kubernetes Engineer

Senior Confluent Kafka / Kubernetes Engineer

We are looking for a senior engineer with 10+ years of experience in event streaming, Kafka platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure

JOB DETAILS

**Role Title:** Senior Confluent Kafka / Kubernetes Engineer

• The candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud, including cluster design, topic management, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, RBAC, ACLs, quotas, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• The role requires experience deploying and operating Confluent Platform on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with Ansible-based Confluent Platform installation, upgrade automation, and configuration management will be highly valuable.
• The candidate should have practical knowledge of Kafka security setup, including SASL_SSL, mTLS, certificates, secrets, service accounts, identity pools, API keys, RBAC, ACLs, and secure connectivity patterns.
• Cloud knowledge across Azure, AWS, or GCP is expected, especially around networking, private endpoints, DNS, firewall rules, IAM, key vaults/secrets, storage, and secure access. Experience with Terraform for Confluent Cloud provisioning, including environments, clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, identity pools, RBAC/ACLs, networking, and access automation, is desirable.
• Knowledge of Spring Boot or Python for Kafka producer/consumer development, admin automation, validation scripts, and operational tooling is an added advantage.
• Experience with Flink, Kafka Streams, CDC, stream processing patterns, and real-time data pipelines will be a strong plus.
• Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka and Confluent Certified Administrator certifications will be considered added advantages.
• The candidate should be capable of working independently, guiding engineering teams, and implementing secure, scalable, resilient Kafka platforms across nonprod and prod environments.