Sr. Kafka Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Kafka
Confluent
AWS
Kubernetes
Prometheus/ Grafana/ ELK
EKS

Job Details

Job Title: Kafka Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite Hybrid)

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years in platform engineering with 3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
  • Expertise with Confluent Platform (Brokers, Schema Registry, Control Center, ksqlDB).
  • Experience deploying and managing Kafka on AWS (including MSK or self-managed EC2-based setups).
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes, especially EKS, for microservices integration.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and alerting stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
  • Management and support of Kafka Cloud and on-premises platforms.
  • Capacity management.
  • Good understanding of SRE principles and methodologies, and experience learning, adapting to, and automating new developments in the Kafka ecosystem.
  • Experience troubleshooting integration platform issues (e.g., connectivity, schema management, producer/consumer, etc.) for Kafka, API gateway, etc.
  • In-depth understanding of the Kafka producer and consumer client functionality.
  • Experience troubleshooting custom Kafka client applications written in Java, .NET, Python, and Spring Boot.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Schema Registry components, understanding its underlying functionality and implementation.
  • Preferably, at least 3 years' experience working in AWS, specifically EKS, EC2, IAM, Route53 and Terraform.
  • Proficiency in deploying, scaling, and managing Kubernetes clusters, with a strong understanding of security best practices.
  • Familiarity with Docker and Helm.
  • Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, or any Cloud certification.

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