Kafka Architect

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Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Sharpedge Solutions, is seeking a senior architect with deep experience in Confluent Cloud Kafka and real-time streaming analytics.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and administer Confluent Cloud Kafka platform in production environments.
• Design real-time stream processing pipelines using KSQL DB and Flink for analytics.
• Configure and integrate Kafka Connectors end-to-end in cloud environments.
• Govern platform with schema registry, RBAC, audit logging, retention, and compliance.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform and the Confluent Terraform provider.
• Build and manage Harness CI / CD pipelines or equivalent tools.
• Design and manage Google Cloud networking, including Private Service Connect, DNS, firewalls, and security.
• Implement cloud-native monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Design high availability and disaster recovery strategies, backup / restore, and multi-region architecture.
• Optimize cost, monitor resources, and right-size Confluent Cloud deployments.
• Manage schema version compatibility and data governance for streaming platforms.
• Plan capacity, partitioning, and scaling for streaming architectures.
• Provide production support for mission-critical streaming platforms.
• Collaborate with offshore / on-site teams, gathering requirements, creating design documents, and coordinating delivery.

Qualifications

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Design, Art / Creative, and Information Technology

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