What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kafka Developer position at Purple Drive?
Manage Confluent Cloud environments, clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, ACLs, and RBAC.
• Implement Kafka governance, onboarding, security, and compliance standards.
• Monitor cluster health, throughput, storage, consumer lag, and performance.
• Administer Schema Registry, Cluster Linking, Stream Governance, and Data Contracts.
• Configure, onboard, and troubleshoot Kafka Connect source/sink connectors.
• Resolve producer, consumer, networking, authentication, and authorization issues.
• Develop Kafka-based microservices, REST APIs, Producers, Consumers, and Kafka Streams applications.
Required Skills
Confluent Cloud & Kafka Administration
• Confluent Cloud
• Kafka Clusters
• Topics
• Service Accounts
• API Keys
• ACLs
• RBAC
Governance & Security
• Kafka Governance
• Onboarding
• Security
• Compliance Standards
Monitoring & Performance
• Cluster Health Monitoring
• Throughput Monitoring
• Storage Monitoring
• Consumer Lag Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring
Schema & Data Management
• Schema Registry
• Cluster Linking
• Stream Governance
• Data Contracts
Kafka Connect
• Kafka Connect
• Source Connectors
• Sink Connectors
Troubleshooting
• Producer Issues
• Consumer Issues
• Networking Issues
• Authentication Issues
• Authorization Issues
Development
• Kafka-Based Microservices
• REST APIs
• Producers
• Consumers
• Kafka Streams Applications
Skills: Java Rest web services~Digital : Kafka~Digital : Spring Boot~Digital : Cloud Computing (General)