Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer Kafka & Private Cloud

Job Title: Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer (Kafka & Private Cloud)

Location: Minneapolis, MN (3 days onsite / hybrid)

Job Type: Contract (Long-Term)

Experience: 10+ years overall IT; 3+ years Pega Infrastructure/Cloud

Job Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in Pega platform deployment and administration on Private Cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience externalizing Pega services such as Kafka and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, containerizing Pega applications, and deploying solutions on AWS-based private cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support Pega Platform infrastructure in Private Cloud environments
• Configure and manage Pega externalized services including Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Deploy and administer containerized Pega applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Helm
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Configure and manage highly available Kafka environments — topic management, partitioning, replication, security, and monitoring
• Manage OpenSearch/Elasticsearch clusters including indexing, retention, and search optimization
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools
• Support production environments, incident management, performance tuning, and disaster recovery
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, security, and architecture teams

Required Skills

• Pega Platform, Pega Private Cloud, Pega Containerization
• Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• AWS — EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines
• Linux administration and shell scripting
• Cloud networking, security, IAM, certificates, and access controls

Preferred Skills

• AWS certifications
• Monitoring tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch
• High availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security experience
• Experience deploying Pega on Kubernetes-based platforms

Location & Work Model

Minneapolis, MN — Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Engagement Details

Long-term contract engagement. Immediate need — qualified candidates are encouraged to apply promptly.