Kafka Admin Good exposure to messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and real-time data processing Experience administering Confluent-managed Kafka (deployment/configuration, monitoring and performance optimization, security and access control, backup and DR strategies, configuration management, troubleshooting and incident management, automation, and scripting) Good conceptual understanding of Kafka topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and Kafka Streams Working experience with Schema Registry, KSQLDB, Kafka Connect Experience with Kafka Connect to source / sink data to database. Exposure to Snowflake Data Cloud is a plus.