Set these settings in your Kafka Connect worker config (Confluent Doc for this here: https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka/authentication_sasl_plain.html#kafka-connect)
# Connect worker
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
ssl.truststore.location=/var/ssl/private/kafka.client.truststore.jks
ssl.truststore.password=test1234
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN