# Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer - Datamatics Technologies

Job Description: Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer Role Summary We are looking for an experienced Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer to support the deployment, configuration, administration, and production operations of Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, Java, Spring Boot, Linux, security, troubleshooting, and data streaming, with responsibility for maintaining reliable, secure, and highly available Kafka environments. Position Details Job Title: Lead Confluent Kafka Engineer Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: Onsite Location: Islamabad Experience Required: 5 to 10 years Education: Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field Responsibilities Deploy, configure, and maintain Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform across development, UAT, and production environments. Support Kafka cluster provisioning, broker configuration, topic creation, partitioning, replication, retention, and capacity management. Perform Kafka upgrades, patches, rolling restarts, configuration changes, and cluster expansion with minimal production impact. Support deployment of Kafka components such as Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Control Center, and supportin

- **Id**: 3688075
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datamatics-technologies-lead-confluent-kafka-engineer-datamatics-technologies-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Karachi, Pakistan
- **Countries**: PK
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T15:37:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:58:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3408
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data & Analytics, Information Technology, IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation, Analytics & BI Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 4413925
- **Name**: Datamatics Technologies
- **Domain**: datamaticstechnologies.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datamaticstechnologies>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: JazzHR

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **AppDynamics** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenShift** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Splunk** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T15:37:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 83
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.873
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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