Kafka Platform Engineer / Admin --------Hybrid

Job Title : Kafka Platform Engineer Kafka Administrator

Location: Cincinnati, OH Hybrid 4 days a week onsite

Duration: Long term

Responsibilities:

• We are looking for a Kafka Platform Engineer with at least 6+ years of IT experience. *Open to any domain.
• We are looking for a Kafka platform engineer with strong, hands-on experience supporting Kafka in production.
• We are looking for someone who can own the Kafka platform end to end, support engineering teams, and keep the environment stable, observable, and scalable.
• For this role, hands-on multi-region Kafka experience and the ability to independently own and lead the platform is important.

This role is focused on operating and supporting our Kafka ecosystem, which includes:

• Amazon MSK as the managed Kafka service
• Kafka Connect (including source/sink connectors)
• Schema Registry
• Lenses for operational monitoring, analysis, auditing, alerting, and Kafka SQL
• Integration across AWS and on-prem data center applications
• Event-driven, microservices-based architecture

Key requirements:

• Hands-on experience supporting managed Kafka (MSK or Confluent) in production
• Experience with multi-region or highly available Kafka architectures
• Strong understanding of Kafka Connect, connector lifecycle, and troubleshooting
• Experience with schema management and compatibility (Schema Registry)
• Operating Kafka as a platform, not just producing/consuming messages
• Proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability (Lenses or similar tools)
• Understanding of security, ACLs, authentication, and authorization
• Supporting event-driven architectures and real-time data integration
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes-based Kafka components where applicable