Kafka Flink Architect

Mandatory skill:
Confluent Kafka, Advanced Knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink

• Extensive experience architecting, implementing, and administering Confluent Cloud Kafka platform in production environments.
• Advanced knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink for real‑time stream processing/analytics.
• Proven proficiency in Kafka Connectors—from configuration to end‑to‑end integration in cloud environments.
• Strong background in platform governance: schema registry, RBAC, audit logging, retention, and compliance.
• Deep expertise with Terraform and the Confluent Terraform provider;
  Infrastructure‑as‑Code methodology and automation.
• Practical experience designing and managing Harness CI/CD pipelines or other similar tools.
• Advanced knowledge of GCP networking, including Private Service Connect (PSC), DNS, firewalls and enterprise security.
• Track record in implementing cloud‑native monitoring and observability solutions; troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Thorough experience with Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) strategies, backup/restore, and multi‑region design.
• Practical experience with cost optimization, resource monitoring, and right‑sizing in Confluent Cloud.
• Strong abilities in schema management, version compatibility, and data governance.
• Demonstrated capability in capacity planning, partitioning, and scaling streaming architectures.
• Experienced in Agile/Dev Ops methodologies.
• Experience providing hands‑on production support for mission‑critical streaming platforms.
• Experience in working with an offshore/on‑site model. The position requires gathering requirements on‑site, creating detailed design documents and coordinating with offshore for the development/delivery.

Mid‑Senior level

Contract

Information Technology