Kafka Engineer

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Looking for a Kafka Engineer for Silicon Valley Bank . This is a remote role working PST hours.

Important Notes:

Not looking for Data Engineers or Kafka Administrators.

Experience Level: Master s in Computer Science + 3 years of experience

Role Details:

• Title: Kafka Engineer (80% engineering, 20% admin)
• Duration: 1 year
• Location: Remote (PST hours)
• Interview: 1 2 rounds focused on technical knowledge and configuration

Top Skills:

• Kafka Connectors (most important: integration knowledge)
• Configuration experience
• Nice to have: KSQL (Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka)

Job Responsibilities:

• Confluent Kafka administration across multi-DC brokers, connectors, C3, KSQL DB, Rest Proxy, Schema Registry
• Configure and maintain Kafka topics, RBAC, connectors, KSQL, and schema registry
• Ensure Kafka security, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery
• Support Kafka clients in Java, Node.js, and Python
• Basic administration of Apache NiFi (OSS)
• Design and develop Kafka-based solutions using Confluent Kafka, Connectors, KSQL, and NiFi
• Experience with cloud (AWS), data connectors, and queue connectors (design + configuration)

Let me know if you have any strong candidates!