Confluent Kafka Developer
First seen by Alion on Aug 20, 2026.
Role : Confluent Kafka Developer
Experience : 5 to 7 Years
Employment Type : Full Time
Joining Availability : Immediate
Location : Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad
Timings : 2 : 00 PM 11 : 00 PM IST
Job Description :
We are looking for an experienced Confluent Kafka Developer with a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka and experience handling critical 24x7 applications. The candidate should have strong expertise in designing and implementing real-time data processing solutions using Kafka and working with the Confluent Kafka ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities :
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience working with Confluent Kafka and handling critical 24x7 applications.
- Expertise in designing and providing solutions for real-time data processing using Kafka for different business use cases.
- Strong expertise with Confluent Kafka components including Brokers, ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and Flink.
- Hands-on experience installing and configuring Confluent Source and Sink Connectors to send and receive data from various applications.
- Hands-on experience writing Flink code for various real-time data processing use cases.
- Experience handling complex and unstructured data formats including nested JSON and Avro.
- Experience working with AWS cloud services including S3, Lambda and RDS.
- Strong troubleshooting experience with Kafka incidents and problem management, including timely problem identification, successful resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to document solutions and provide guidance to the team on Kafka best practices and standards.
Mandatory Skills :
- 5+ years of hands-on Confluent Kafka experience
- Kafka Brokers
- Kafka Connect Source and Sink Connectors
- Confluent Schema Registry
- Apache Flink hands-on coding experience
- Real-time data processing using Kafka
- Production Kafka / 24x7 critical application support
- AWS S3, Lambda and RDS
- Nested JSON and Avro
- Kafka troubleshooting, incident management and RCA
Good to Have :
- Confluent Certification
Skills
Confluent Kafka, Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache ZooKeeper, AWS, Incident Management