Kafka Engineer At Hartford, CT

Role Kafka Engineer

Hartford, CT

Duration 12 Months

Must Have Skills Apache Kafka clusters (MSK/Confluent) Kafka Connect, Streams, and Schema Registry, AWS , ETL

Kafka Engineer (10 Years Experience)

1. Designed, built, and maintained large-scale Apache Kafka clusters supporting high-throughput, low-latency event streaming
2. Architected event-driven and streaming data platforms using Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect
3. Led capacity planning, performance tuning, and scaling of Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, and consumers
4. Implemented high availability and fault tolerance, including replication strategies and disaster recovery
5. Managed schema evolution and data governance using Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf/JSON)
6. Developed and optimized Kafka producers and consumers across multiple languages (Java, Scala, Python, etc.)
7. Integrated Kafka with downstream systems such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and cloud data warehouses
8. Built and maintained Kafka Connect connectors (custom and off-the-shelf) for real-time data ingestion
9. Ensured security and compliance: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and audit logging
10. Monitored and troubleshot Kafka ecosystems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center
11. Led incident response and root cause analysis for production issues and outages
12. Automated deployments and operations using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm
13. Migrated on-prem Kafka workloads to cloud or managed services (Confluent Cloud, MSK, Event Hubs)

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