Title: Kafka Migration Subcontractor
Area(s) of responsibility
About Birlasoft:
Birlasoft, a powerhouse where domain expertise, enterprise solutions, and digital technologies converge to redefine business processes. We take pride in our consultative and design thinking approach, driving societal progress by enabling our customers to run businesses with unmatched efficiency and innovation. As part of the CK Birla Group, a multibillion-dollar enterprise, we boast a 12,500+ professional team committed to upholding the Group's 162-year legacy. Our core values prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, along with Corporate Sustainable Responsibility (CSR) activities, demonstrating our dedication to building inclusive and sustainable communities. Join us in shaping a future where technology seamlessly aligns with purpose.
Responsibilities
• Migrate Kafka from DHLParcel.UK.Kafka to Confluent Cloud (Confluent.Kafka with SASL auth + Schema Registry)
• Update Kafka client configuration across all consuming/producing services
• Validate message flows, consumer groups, and offset management post-migration
• Kafka throughput validation and performance testing
Required Skills
• Apache Kafka — producers, consumers, consumer groups, partitioning
• Confluent Cloud — SASL/PLAIN authentication, Schema Registry, ACLs
• Confluent.Kafka .NET client library
• Kafka monitoring (lag, throughput, error rates)
• Message serialization (Avro, JSON Schema, Protobuf)
• Network configuration for Kafka brokers (security groups, VPC peering)
Nice to Have
• Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker for migration scenarios
• Schema evolution and compatibility strategies
• Performance tuning (batch size, linger.ms, compression)