Kafka Engineer

Devsinc is looking for a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Kafka Engineer to join our growing team in KSA
. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Kafka-based data pipelines and stream processing systems. You will work with cross-functional teams to integrate Kafka with different systems and ensure data flow reliability and efficiency.

• Kafka Operations:
  Confluent Kafka; cluster setup and maintenance.
• Cluster Management:
  High availability, cross-site replication, Zoo Keeper.
• Schema Registry & Topic Governance:
  Confluent Schema Registry or equivalent.
• Monitoring:
  Prometheus JMX Exporter, Dynatrace Kafka plugins, Elastic.
• Security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC.
• Integration & APIs:
  Kafka REST API, connectors.

• Event-driven architecture and distributed system principles.
• Performance tuning and throughput optimization.
• Disaster recovery strategies for Kafka clusters.
• Governance, schema evolution, and topic lifecycle management.
• Operate and scale Kafka clusters reliably.
• Ensure HA and cross-site replication.
• Implement governance, topic management, and secure access.
• Integrate and monitor Kafka metrics/logs into observability dashboards.
• Ensure proper ACLs and RBAC policies for producers/consumers.
• Respond to Kafka-related incidents and outages.

Minimum 4–6 years of experience required.