Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies
Naperville, IL
Remote
Job Description
Bright Vision Technologies is a software development company looking for a skilled Kafka Platform Engineer to join its dynamic team. The role involves architecting, deploying, and operating large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments.

Requirements

  • Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform clusters
  • Design partitioning, replication, and topic strategies
  • Implement strong security on Kafka clusters
  • Operate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams
  • Build and operate Kafka Connect pipelines
  • Design HA/DR strategies for Kafka
  • Build CI/CD pipelines for Kafka topic, ACL, and connector configurations
  • Implement comprehensive observability
  • Drive Kafka cost and capacity optimization
  • Onboard application teams to Kafka
  • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews
  • Mentor and coach junior engineers
  • Maintain technical documentation

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary
  • Benefits
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