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This role is for one of the Weekday's clients Salary range: Rs 600000 - Rs 1000000 (ie INR 6 - 10 LPA) Min Experience: 3+ years Location: Pune JobType: full-time We are looking for a skilled Confluent Integration Engineer with 3-6 years of experience in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting real-time data integration solutions using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform . The ideal candidate will have robust hands-on expertise in Kafka-based architectures, Confluent connectors, data pipelines, and event-driven integration patterns. You will work closely with engineering, application, data, and infrastructure teams to build reliable, scalable, and high-performance streaming solutions. The role requires strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to manage Kafka and Confluent integrations across development, testing, and production environments. Requirements Key Responsibilities - Design, develop, configure, and maintain real-time data integration pipelines using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform - Implement and manage Kafka Connect frameworks and Confluent connectors for integrating databases, applications, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems - Configure and maintain Source and Sink Connectors, including connector properties, transforms, converters, tasks, and worker configurations - Develop scalable event-driven integration solutions using Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, producers, and consumers - Monitor Kafka clusters, Connect workers, connectors, and data pipelines to ensure availability, reliability, and performance - Troubleshoot connector failures, message delivery issues, consumer lag, serialization problems, schema-related issues, and pipeline disruptions - Work with Confluent Schema Registry to manage Avro, JSON Schema, or Protobuf schemas and maintain data compatibility - Optimize Kafka configurations including partitions, replication, retention, consumer settings, and connector task allocation - Implement data tra .
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