Kafka Platform Engineer

Overview

Remote
$70 - $80
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Kafka clusters

Job Details

Job title: Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: Remote Quarterly Travel to DE/PA/DC for PI Planning Events
Duration: 6 months
Client : Amtrak
  • Design and implement Kafka clusters (on-prem or cloud) with high availability and performance tuning.
  • Monitor, scale, and troubleshoot Kafka topics, brokers, producers, consumers, and connectors.
  • Ensure platform resilience with partitioning strategies, replication, schema management, and disaster recovery.
  • Enable self-service and reusability by building reusable patterns, APIs, governance hooks, and templates for other engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with application teams, data engineers, and platform teams to ensure seamless integration
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