Principal Kafka Platform Engineer

Experience: 8 years (including 5 years hands-on with Apache Kafka platform engineering) Key Responsibilities • Manage Kafka cluster lifecycle: provisioning, configuration tuning, upgrades, and decommissioning • Deploy, operate, and maintain Kafka on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) • Monitor cluster health and set up alerting across consumer lag, broker health, and topic throughput • Design and operate disaster recovery and multi-region replication strategies • Enforce Kafka secu…