Sr. Kafka Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer with strong experience in Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platform engineering. The role involves designing, deploying, administering, and supporting enterprise Kafka environments, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and production support.

• Design, install, configure, deploy, and administer Confluent Cloud/Kafka platforms.
• Provide 24x7 on-call production support and resolve critical issues.
• Partner with architecture teams to align platform design with modern engineering practices.
• Develop automation for platform operations including deployments, restarts, patching, and upgrades.
• Manage platform patching, roadmap execution, and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure stability, scalability, and performance of Kafka-based systems.

• 5+ years in platform engineering or middleware technologies with focus on Kafka/Confluent Cloud.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in Kafka/Confluent installation, configuration, and administration.
• 3+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux systems, including storage, file systems, and networking.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and messaging architectures (3+ years).
• 2+ years of experience creating technical documentation and operational runbooks.

• 3+ years of production support experience with Kafka/Confluent platforms (troubleshooting and defect resolution).
• Strong experience in Dev Sec Ops  and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Hands‑on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or similar.
• Proficiency with Git Hub or other version control systems.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills, including log analysis and system diagnostics.

• Experience with application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, VisualVM, JProfiler).
• Knowledge of JVM tuning, web container tuning, and database connection pool optimization.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Agile, and Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation frameworks.