Kafka Developer

Job Title: Kafka Developer

City: O'Fallon

State/Province: Missouri

Posting Start Date: 10/5/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.

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• Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
• Drive DevOps & automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual operations.
• Build and enhance automation using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate closely with application and platform engineering teams.
• Contribute to Java-based tooling and platform enhancements.

What We're Looking For:

• 3-6 years of experience working with Kafka / messaging systems.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, replication).
• Hands-on experience with SRE / DevOps practices.
• Proven skills in automation (Ansible, scripting, CI/CD).
• Java development background (ability to debug, enhance, or build platform tools).
• Experience with Linux, distributed systems, monitoring & alerting.
• Exposure to incident response, production support, and operational excellence.

Required Skills:

• Messaging: Kafka, IBM MQ, NATS, Flink.
• Configuration Management Tools: Chef Infra, Habitat, Ansible.
• CI/CD Tools: Bitbucket, Jenkins, XLR, Git.
• Scripting: Shell, Python.
• Event Management Tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus.
• Cloud: Preferred AWS.
• Primary Skills: MQ or Kafka (MANDATORY) and Ansible (or any config management tool), Chef - writing playbooks.
• Secondary Skills: Shell, Splunk, Dynatrace, AWS.

Mandatory Skills:

• Kafka Integration.

Experience:

• 5-8 Years.

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000. Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), and other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

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