Event Streaming Engineer - Kafka / Azure Event Hubs

We are looking for a Senior Event Streaming Engineer / Lead to design and implement event-driven integration solutions using Azure Event Hubs and Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design event-driven integrations, including Kafka connectivity, topic mapping, partitioning, and schema management.
• Configure Event Hubs, partitions, consumer groups, retention, and throughput settings in collaboration with Cloud Engineering.
• Implement secure authentication, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, and least-privilege access controls.
• Develop event ingestion and downstream consumer integrations using Kafka-compatible interfaces or Azure SDKs.
• Implement retry, recovery, duplicate handling, replay, and end-to-end reliability testing.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, operational runbooks, and technical documentation.

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience with Azure Event Hubs and Apache Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka producers, consumers, topics, partitions, offsets, and delivery semantics.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, serialization, and schema compatibility.
• Practical knowledge of Azure security, identity, RBAC, and credential management.
• Ability to independently design, develop, troubleshoot, and test end-to-end integrations.

Preferred Skills

• C#/.NET development for Kafka integrations or bridge solutions.
• Experience with JSON, Avro, and schema registries.
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Terraform/Bicep, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and production support.
• Azure or Kafka certifications are an advantage.

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