Kafka Platform Engineer
Tasks
- Architect deploy and manage Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments
- Build Infrastructure as Code for Kafka using Terraform and Ansible
- Deploy Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi and Confluent Operator or managed cloud services
- Design Kafka cluster topology and partitioning strategies
- Establish event streaming standards governance and mentor engineering teams
- Implement Kafka security using SASL SSL mTLS ACLs RBAC encryption
- Implement high availability disaster recovery and cross region replication
- Manage Kafka Connect Schema Registry Kafka Streams and ksqlDB
- Optimize Kafka performance and troubleshoot production issues
- Set up monitoring alerting logging and observability using Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry ELK
Perks/Benefits
- N/A
Skills/Tech-stack
AWS MSK | Access Control | Access Control Lists | Access Control Lists ACLs | Ansible | Apache Beam | Apache Flink | Apache Kafka | Apache Spark | Apache Spark Structured Streaming | Authentication | Azure Event | Azure Event Hubs | Azure Event Hubs Kafka | Azure Event Hubs Kafka API | Bash | Confluent Cloud | Confluent Operator | Confluent Platform | Cross Region | Cross-region replication | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning | ELK | Encryption | Go | Grafana | High Availability | Infrastructure as Code | KSQLDB | Kafka API | Kafka Connect | Kafka Streams | Kubernetes | MTLS | OpenTelemetry | Prometheus | Python | RBAC | Recovery Planning | SASL | SSL | Schema Registry | Spark Structured Streaming | Strimzi | Structured Streaming | Terraform | “as-code”
Education
Bachelor of Engineering | Bachelor of Science | Master of Science
Roles
Engineer | Kafka Platform Engineer | Platform | Platform Engineer
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