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Job Description Apply now Apply Now Start applying with LinkedIn Start Please wait... Job Title: Tech Lead - Opentelemetry&Kafka City: Pune State/Province: Maharashtra Posting Start Date: 5/29/26 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. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com. Job Description: Job Description Job Description: OpenTelemetry & Kafka Expert Role Overview We are seeking an OpenTelemetry and Kafka Expert with 5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise observability and streaming platforms. The role focuses on designing, operating, and optimizing Kafka-based telemetry pipelines and OpenTelemetry instrumentation in large-scale production environments. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and operate Kafka-based streaming platforms for logs, metrics, and traces. Configure and optimize Kafka clusters including brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and consumer groups. Implement and manage Kafka security using SSL/TLS and SASL mechanisms. Design and operate OpenTelemetry pipelines and collectors for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing. Integrate telemetry data across logs, metrics, and traces for end-to-end observability. Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and reliability improvements for Kafka and OTel pipelines. Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kafka, OpenTelemetry collectors, and downstream systems. Manage and operate data/telemetry platforms ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance. Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to support enterprise observability use cases. Mandatory Skills (Must-Have) 5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka in production environments. Strong knowledge of Kafka architecture: brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, offsets. Hands-on experience with Kafka security (SSL/TLS, SASL). Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry pipelines and collectors. Experience integrating logs, metrics, and traces into a unified observability platform. Proven expertise in performance tuning and production troubleshooting. Experience managing enterprise-scale data or observability platforms. Good-to-Have Skills Experience with Kafka ecosystem tools (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams). Experience integrating telemetry with tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, or similar platforms. Exposure to Kubernetes/OpenShift-based observability. Experience working in regulated or large enterprise environments. Mandatory Skills: Kafka Integration . Experience: 5-8 Years . Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Apply now Apply Now Start applying with LinkedIn Start Please wait... Information at a Glance Get Job Alerts Receive notifications when we have open roles and get other relevant career news Register > Join Us Explore open roles that match your interests and skills Search Jobs >