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Kafka Platform Engineer

Apex 2000 Inc

 

Columbus, OH, USA

Posted On: 15+ days ago
Experience: 5+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Kafka Engineer
Tenure: No Preference/Any
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Description

You will design, deploy, and maintain Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka infrastructure for Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

  • Configure Kafka clusters, topics, partitions, replication policies, and retention settings.
  • Implement multi-region and disaster recovery strategies and event-driven architecture.
  • Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform and integrate Kafka into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Monitor platform health, throughput, consumer lag, and broker utilization to troubleshoot issues.
  • Collaborate with enterprise architects and integration teams on technical design reviews.

Required Skills

  • 5+ years of experience with Apache Kafka architecture, administration, Producers, and Consumers.
  • Strong proficiency with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Stream Governance.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure and integrating cloud services with Kafka.
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git platforms like GitHub or GitLab.
  • Knowledge of REST APIs, SASL/SSL, OAuth, RBAC, and API Key management.
  • Understanding of event-driven architecture and microservices integration patterns.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience designing topic partitioning strategies and capacity planning.
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps for pipeline management.

Education

Any Graduate

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