Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer
Temporary
PB consulting
We are seeking a Lead Consultant – Confluent Kafka to lead Kafka platform administration, troubleshooting, maintenance, automation, and production support. The role requires strong Confluent Kafka expertise, client-facing communication, and team leadership experience.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Administer and support Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud environments.
- Troubleshoot Kafka connectivity, consumer groups, consumer lag, serialization, permissions, and AVRO schema issues.
- Monitor Kafka using Datadog, Prometheus, Conduktor, and related observability tools.
- Manage Kafka components including Replicator, Connectors, ZooKeeper, and KSQL.
- Automate Kafka administration using Terraform and CI/CD/DevSecOps practices.
- Manage Kafka configurations, including users, ACLs, topics, connectors, and application configurations.
- Perform platform upgrades, patching, certificate renewals, and vulnerability remediation.
- Troubleshoot Kafka client applications built with Java, .NET, Python, and Spring Boot.
- Maintain and execute DR runbooks in accordance with security and risk requirements.
- Collaborate with product and application teams on releases, documentation, enhancements, and automation.
- Coordinate with Confluent or cloud providers to resolve platform issues.
- Lead and mentor team members and communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
- Support AutoSys, including agent installation, maintenance, patching, upgrades, and service checkouts.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of IT experience with strong Kafka platform experience.
- Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka / Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud.
- Strong Kafka administration, troubleshooting, and production support experience.
- Experience with Kafka monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Conduktor.
- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
- Strong understanding of Kafka security, ACLs, topics, connectors, schemas, and consumer groups.
- Experience with DR, patching, upgrades, certificates, and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience troubleshooting Java, .NET, Python, and Spring Boot Kafka applications.
- Strong client-facing, team leadership, and communication skills.
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