Senior Software Engineer, Confluent Kafka Admin at Ntrix Innovation · Hyderabad, Pune, Noida, Gurugram · 6 - 7 years · ₹22L - ₹24L / yr · Profitable · Posted 12 Jun 2024

· IMMEDIATE JOINER
Professional Experience with 5+ years in Confluent Kafka Admin
· Demonstrated experience design / development.
· Must have proven knowledge and practical application of – Confluent Kafka (Producers/ Consumers / Kafka Connectors / Kafka Stream/ksqlDB/Schema Registry)
· Experience in performance optimization of consumers, producers.
· Good experience debugging issues related offset, consumer lag, partitions.
· Experience with Administrative tasks on Confluent Kafka.
· Kafka admin experience including but not limited to setup new Kafka cluster, create topics, grant permissions, offset reset, purge data, setup connectors, setup replicator task, troubleshooting issues, Monitor Kafka cluster health and performance, backup and recovery.
· Experience in implementing security measures for Kafka clusters, including access controls and encryption, to protect sensitive data.
· Install/Upgrade Kafka cluster techniques.
· Good experience with writing unit tests using Junit and Mockito
· Have experience with working in client facing project.
· Exposure to any cloud environment like AZURE is added advantage.
· Experience in developing or working on REST Microservices
Experience in Java, Springboot is a plus

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Experience: 8+ years (including 5+ years hands-on with Apache Kafka platform engineering)
Key Responsibilities
• Manage Kafka cluster lifecycle: provisioning, configuration tuning, upgrades, and decommissioning
• Deploy, operate, and maintain Kafka on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK)
• Monitor cluster health and set up alerting across consumer lag, broker health, and topic throughput
• Design and operate disaster recovery and multi-region replication strategies
• Enforce Kafka security policies including access reviews and ACL management
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, consumer lag issues, and broker failures
Must Have
• 8+ years in messaging/streaming platform engineering, with 5+ years on Apache Kafka platform engineering
• Hands-on administration of self-managed on-premises Kafka clusters in KRaft mode
• Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK): operator management and custom resource configuration
• Kafka Connect: connector lifecycle, SMTs, and error handling
• Confluent Schema Registry; schema evolution and compatibility modes
• Kafka security: TLS/mTLS, SASL, and ACL configuration and troubleshooting
• Proficiency in Java or Scala; Python for scripting and tooling
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Good to Have
• Apache Flink for complex event processing beyond Kafka Streams
• CDC pipelines into Kafka
• Operational experience with MirrorMaker 2 or Confluent Replicator in multi-DC setups
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture or data mesh principles
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for Kafka resources
• Integrate Kafka platform changes with CI/CD pipelines for topic and schema deployments






