IBM Confluence Kafka Engineer

Job Description

Requirements

• Core Technical Requirements
• A. IBM Integration Capabilities (App Connect or webMethods)
• - Deep experience authoring, deploying, and maintaining integrations using IBM App Connect (ESQL, Java, Compute nodes, REST/SOAP API flows) OR IBM webMethods (IS Flow Services, Java Services, Designer, webMethods.io).
• - Ability to map complex data formats (JSON, XML, Copybooks, Flat Files) into enterprise canonical models.
• - Experience leveraging native IBM nodes/adapters to produce and consume directly to/from Apache Kafka / Confluent topics.
• B. Confluent Kafka & Streaming Capabilities
• - Strong grasp of Kafka architecture: Topic partitioning, Producer/Consumer tuning, Consumer Groups, and Offset Management.
• - Hands-on implementation of Confluent Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf) for enterprise data governance and backward/forward schema compatibility.
• - Experience with Kafka Connect framework for streaming data between databases, IBM MQ, and Kafka topics.
• - Knowledge of stream transformation using Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.
• C. Infrastructure, DevOps & Security
• - Deployment experience on Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, or IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I).
• - Experience automating integration deployments using CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) and Terraform/Ansible.
• - Solid understanding of security protocols across hybrid clouds: mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, OAuth2, API Key Management, and RBAC/ACLs.

Skills Required