Job Description
Job Title:  TECHNICAL LEAD L1(CONTRACT)
City:  Leeds
State/Province:  West Yorkshire
Posting Start Date:  1/8/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

Job Description

Location : Leeds, UK 

Rate: 600 GBP
Experience:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Confluent / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Responsibilities:
Manage Kafka Cluster build, including Design, Infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Build and support producer / consumer apps
Implement encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper, Broker/Client, Connect cluster/connectors, Schema Registry, REST API, Producers/Consumers, KSQL
SSL Certificate management including public key management
Setting up monitoring tools such as SPLUNK, Prometheus, Grafana to provide metrics from various Kafka cluster components (eg., Broker, Zookeeper, Connect, REST proxy, Mirror Maker, Schema Registry, KSQL)
Undertake Lifecycle Management across the Kafka on premise environments.
Research and recommend innovative ways to maintain the environment and ensure automation is undertaken.
Undertake regular assessments of the platform health and stability, create improvement plans and ensure automation/lifecycle management is undertaken.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in application integration development
2+ years of experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka
3 years of experience in building & managing Open Source / Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments.
Experience in Containerisation (Openshift / Kubernetes).
Interaction with Oracle / PostgreSQL databases
Experience in Disaster recovery planning & testing for the Middleware Services block application and supporting Product Grid block application testing
Experience in Setting up monitoring tools for Kafka clusters.
Knowledge of Infrastructure, Network topologies and Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS)
Understand clustering and virtualisation technologies
Architect, being able to attend Architecture forums and demonstrate pros/cons of different solutions
Strong Communications and ability to work with business areas+

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Deliver

No Performance Parameter Measure
1 Process No. of cases resolved per day, compliance to process and quality standards, meeting process level SLAs, Pulse score, Customer feedback, NSAT/ ESAT
2 Team Management Productivity, efficiency, absenteeism
3 Capability development Triages completed, Technical Test performance

 
Mandatory Skills: Apache Kafka .

 

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