Senior Confluent Kafka Migration Engineer

Senior Confluent Kafka Migration Engineer

Role: Senior Confluent Kafka Migration Engineer
Education: Diploma in Information Technology, Engineering
Experience: 5+ years
Location: Infopark, Kochi

Cloud Environment Build-out & Networking

Provision Confluent Cloud environments (Dev, Pre-Prod, Prod) and configure RBAC and SSO.
Configure private networking (AWS Private Link, GCP Private Service Connect or VPC Peering) and ensure routing to on-premises data centers.
Set up CI/CD automation pipelines (Terraform / GitOps) for topic, schema and ACL governance.
Configure telemetry, metrics export, consumer lag tracking and audit logging into the client’s observability platforms.

Kafka Estate & Data Migration

Migrate all topics, schemas (Schema Registry subjects), ACLs, Kafka Connect connectors and service credentials.
Establish Cluster Linking between on-premises Confluent Platform clusters and Confluent Cloud.
Enforce data parity, schema validation and consumer offset mapping throughout cut over.

Client Authentication Modernisation

Support application squads in transitioning away from Kerberos keytabs to Confluent Cloud-supported authentication protocols.
Option A: Update client application libraries to native API Keys, OAuth or mTLS.
Option B: Implement an intermediate authentication translation layer where application changes are not feasible.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Core / Essential – Primary Focus

API, telemetry export, audit logs Hands-on Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform engineering and administration (brokers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry).
Proven delivery of at least one on premises to Confluent Cloud migration, including Cluster Linking and offset mapping.
Confluent Cloud private networking (AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, VPC Peering) and hybrid routing.
Terraform (incl. Confluent Terraform provider) and GitOps-based CI/CD automation. Kafka security: Kerberos/SASL, OAuth, mTLS, API Keys, RBAC and SSO.

Supporting Skills

Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS fundamentals.
Kafka monitoring and observability (metrics export, consumer lag, audit logging).
Kafka client libraries (e.g. Java, Python, .NET) to support application squads. Scripting (Bash, Python).
Advantageous
Confluent certification (e.g. Confluent Certified Administrator / Developer for Apache Kafka).
GCP or AWS cloud certification.
Telecommunications or large enterprise environment experience.
Experience implementing authentication proxy/translation layers for Kafka.
Diploma in Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of Kafka engineering experience, including recent hands-on Confluent Cloud experience.
Demonstrable on-premises to cloud Kafka migration experience (project references required).