Job Description
Required qualifications
- Excellent communication and partnership skills with platform and application teams.
- Deep hands-on experience operating Kafka in production at scale (brokers, controllers, partitions, ISR, tiered storage/retention, rebalancing, replication, recovery).
- Strong Kubernetes expertise running stateful systems.
- Automation first: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Helm, Operators, GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins) for platform lifecycle.
- Proficiency with one or more languages for tooling/automation: Python, Go, or Java; plus Bash and solid Linux fundamentals (networking, filesystems, JVM tuning basics).
- Observability and reliability engineering for Kafka: Prometheus/Grafana, logging, alerting, lag monitoring, capacity/throughput modeling, performance tuning.
- Security for data in motion: TLS/mTLS, SASL/OAuth, ACL/RBAC, secrets management (e.g., Vault), and audit/compliance practices.
- Experience with Kafka ecosystem components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker 2/Cluster Linking; familiarity with Cruise Control.
- Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) with networking, IAM, and one or more managed offerings (e.g., Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).
- Proven track record designing runbooks, leading incidents/postmortems, and driving platform roadmaps.
Nice to have
- Data processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Structured Streaming) and EOS semantics.
- Experience with Strimzi or Confluent for Kubernetes in production.
- Knowledge of CDC patterns and tools (e.g., Debezium) and database connectors at scale.
- Multi-region architectures, cluster linking strategies, and disaster recovery drills.
Experience: 5-8 Years .
The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .
Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.
Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.
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