Description

You will architect, implement, and administer the Confluent Cloud Kafka platform in production environments.

This role is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage streaming architectures, covering capacity planning, partitioning, and scaling.
• Implement and maintain Kafka Connectors, ensuring end-to-end integration in cloud environments.
• Own platform governance aspects, including schema registry, RBAC, audit logging, and retention policies.
• Design and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) strategies across multi-region setups.
• Gather requirements on-site, create detailed design documents, and coordinate development with offshore teams.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience architecting and administering Kafka in production.
• Advanced knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink for real-time stream processing.
• Expertise with Terraform and the Confluent Terraform provider for Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Strong background in GCP networking, including Private Service Connect (PSC) and Firewall configuration.
• Proven ability to design and manage CI/CD pipelines (Harness or similar).
• Experience implementing cloud-native monitoring and observability solutions for incident response.
• Demonstrated capacity in schema management, version compatibility, and data governance.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with Agile/DevOps methodologies and providing hands-on production support.

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute