Eliassen Group
Eliassen Group

Platform Engineer III

Cincinnati, OH, US • Posted 21 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago
Contract W2
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Skills

  • Operational Excellence
  • Cloud Computing
  • Information Security Governance
  • SAP BASIS
  • Life Insurance
  • Real-time
  • High Availability
  • Capacity Management
  • Snow Flake Schema
  • Terraform
  • Provisioning
  • Computer Networking
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Dynatrace
  • Encryption
  • Management
  • DevOps
  • Apache Kafka
  • Screening
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Recruiting
  • Taxes
  • Insurance
  • Law
  • Management Consulting
  • Finance
  • Regulatory Compliance

Summary

Description:
Onsite in Cincinnati, OH

The organization seeks a hands-on Kafka Platform Engineer to support and scale an enterprise event-driven architecture on Amazon MSK within AWS. The role owns Kafka infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence across a hybrid cloud ecosystem. The engineer will implement Terraform-based IaC, integrate CI/CD, and ensure security, governance, and observability for production workloads.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60.00 to $70.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:
  • Operate and support Amazon MSK in production.
  • Design and manage multi-AZ and multi-region Kafka architectures for high availability.
  • Define topic design, partitioning strategy, retention tuning, and capacity planning.
  • Troubleshoot consumer lag, rebalancing, broker performance, and throughput bottlenecks.
  • Manage Schema Registry and enforce schema governance.
  • Deploy and manage Kafka Connect clusters.
  • Configure and troubleshoot source and sink connectors.
  • Support real-time integrations into Snowflake and other enterprise systems.
  • Build and maintain Terraform modules for MSK, networking, IAM, security groups, and supporting AWS services.
  • Manage Terraform lifecycle meta-arguments, state, modules, and remote backends.
  • Automate environment provisioning across dev, test, and prod.
  • Implement CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure and Kafka deployments.
  • Establish monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or similar.
  • Implement Kafka ACLs, IAM integration, encryption, and secrets management.
  • Operate within regulated enterprise environments.

Experience Requirements:
  • Hands-on production ownership of Amazon MSK and Kafka operations.
  • Experience designing high availability Kafka across multi-AZ and multi-region architectures.
  • Proficiency with topic design, partitioning, retention, and capacity planning.
  • Expertise troubleshooting consumer lag, rebalancing, broker performance, and throughput.
  • Experience managing Schema Registry and schema governance.
  • Experience deploying and managing Kafka Connect clusters and connectors.
  • Proficiency integrating Kafka with Snowflake and enterprise systems.
  • Advanced Terraform skills including modules, lifecycle meta-arguments, state management, and remote backends.
  • Experience automating environment provisioning across multiple environments.
  • Strong understanding of AWS networking including VPCs, subnets, security groups, and IAM.
  • Experience supporting production workloads in AWS.
  • CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure and Kafka deployments.
  • Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or similar.
  • Security and governance experience including Kafka ACLs, IAM integration, encryption, and secrets management.
  • Experience working in regulated enterprise environments.
  • Not a fit: application developers limited to producing/consuming messages without platform ownership.
  • Not a fit: pure DevOps experience without deep Kafka expertise.
  • Not a fit: theoretical knowledge without production ownership.


Recruitment Transparency Notice



Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: cxelisen
  • Position Id: a1WUQ000001OQdV2AW
  • Posted 21 hours ago

Company Info

About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business and IT services for our clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes. Leveraging over 30 years of success, we focus on professional services, talent solutions, and life sciences. Eliassen Group offers local community presence and deep networks. We are committed to positively impacting the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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