Confluent Cloud Kafka Engineer

Role Overview:

This role is for a skilled professional focused on comprehensive management and development within Confluent Cloud and Kafka ecosystems. The position involves administering environments, ensuring governance and security, monitoring performance, and developing Kafka-based microservices and applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Confluent Cloud environments, clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, ACLs, and RBAC.
• Implement Kafka governance, onboarding, security, and compliance standards.
• Monitor cluster health, throughput, storage, consumer lag, and performance.
• Administer Schema Registry, Cluster Linking, Stream Governance, and Data Contracts.
• Configure, onboard, and troubleshoot Kafka Connect source/sink connectors.
• Resolve producer, consumer, networking, authentication, and authorization issues.
• Develop Kafka-based microservices, REST APIs, Producers, Consumers, and Kafka Streams applications.

Required Skills:

• Confluent Cloud & Kafka Administration: Confluent Cloud, Kafka Clusters, Topics, Service Accounts, API Keys, ACLs, RBAC.
• Governance & Security: Kafka Governance, Onboarding, Security, Compliance Standards.
• Monitoring & Performance: Cluster Health Monitoring, Throughput Monitoring, Storage Monitoring, Consumer Lag Monitoring, Performance Monitoring.
• Schema & Data Management: Schema Registry, Cluster Linking, Stream Governance, Data Contracts.
• Kafka Connect: Kafka Connect, Source Connectors, Sink Connectors.
• Troubleshooting: Producer Issues, Consumer Issues, Networking Issues, Authentication Issues, Authorization Issues.
• Development: Kafka-Based Microservices, REST APIs, Producers, Consumers, Kafka Streams Applications.

Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Java Rest web services
• Spring Boot
• Cloud Computing (General)