Job Description
Job Title:  Technical Lead - L1
Req Id:  100848
City:  O Fallon
State/Province:  Missouri
Posting Start Date:  10/8/25
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

Technical Lead L1/ Kafka

Primary Skill :: Kafka, Jenkins, Chef, Scripting, SRE, Splunk, Dynatrace(Any monitoring tool)

Secondary Skills :: git, XLR

• Expertise in managing and operating Apache Kafka, NATS and MQ. Includes configuring topics (Kafka) or subjects (NATS), ensuring high availability, scaling clusters, monitoring performance metrics (e.g., consumer lag, throughput), and troubleshooting issues like message loss or latency. Involves understanding partitioning (Kafka) and pub/sub patterns (NATS) for event streaming and messaging.
• Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation scripts, tools, and integrations. Involves writing clean, maintainable code, debugging, API interactions, version control (e.g., Git), and unit testing.

• Proficiency in tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Jaeger/Zipkin for logs, metrics, and tracing. Involves defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), setting Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and creating dashboards for system health insights.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions. Includes automating build, test, and deployment processes, as well as rollback mechanisms for reliability.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix. Includes managing processes, file systems, permissions, kernel tuning, shell scripting, server configuration, updates, and security.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code (IaC). Includes managing virtual machines, serverless architectures, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) for scalability and high availability.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and firewalls. Includes configuring network services and troubleshooting with tools like Wireshark or traceroute.
• Skills in diagnosing and resolving production issues using logs, metrics, and debugging tools. Includes incident management (e.g., PagerDuty), root cause analysis (RCA), and blameless postmortems.
• Familiarity with securing infrastructure, managing secrets (e.g., Vault), zero-trust principles, and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR). Includes vulnerability management and secure configuration. 
Mandatory Skills: Kafka Services .

 

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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