Job Description: Lead Confluent Kafka EngineerRole Summary
We are looking for an experienced Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer to support the deployment, configuration, administration, and production operations of Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform . The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, Java, Spring Boot, Linux, security, troubleshooting, and data streaming , with responsibility for maintaining reliable, secure, and highly available Kafka environments.
- Job Title: Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Work Arrangement: Onsite
- Location: Islamabad
- Experience Required: 5 to 10 years
- Education: Minimum Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform across development, UAT, and production environments
- Support Kafka cluster provisioning, broker configuration, topic creation, partitioning, replication, retention, and capacity management
- Perform Kafka upgrades, patches, rolling restarts, configuration changes, and cluster expansion with minimal production impact
- Support deployment of Kafka components such as Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Control Center, and supporting services
- Troubleshoot production issues involving brokers, partitions, ISR, replication, consumer lag, throughput, latency, storage, and connectivity
- Manage Kafka security configuration, including TLS/mTLS, SASL, ACLs, certificates, keystores, and truststores
- Support Java/Spring Boot Kafka application deployments , including producer/consumer configuration and integration troubleshooting
- Work with application, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to onboard new Kafka use cases and promote changes across environments
- Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, configuration management, and release activities for Kafka and Kafka-based applications
- Perform health checks, capacity planning, performance tuning, incident management, and root-cause analysis
- Maintain operational documentation, deployment procedures, configuration standards, and recovery/runbook documentation
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and multi-cluster replication requirements where applicable
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform in production
- Strong knowledge of Kafka architecture, brokers, partitions, replication, ISR, consumer groups, offsets, retention, and delivery semantics
- Hands-on experience with Kafka deployment, configuration, upgrades, patching, and operational maintenance
- Strong Java and Spring Boot experience for Kafka producer/consumer integrations
- Strong Linux, networking, JVM, troubleshooting, and production-support skills
- Experience with Kafka security , particularly TLS/mTLS, SASL, ACLs, and certificates
- Confluent Kafka experience
- Data streaming experience
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Anthos, Helm, and containerized Kafka deployments
- Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Confluent Control Center
- CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
- Monitoring experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, or Confluent monitoring tools
- Experience with Kafka DR, multi-cluster architectures, replication, and migration activities
- Experience supporting Kafka in banking, telecom, or other mission-critical environments
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