Title: Kafka Platform Engineer Kafka Administrator
Location: Cincinnati, OH Hybrid 4 days a week onsite
Duration: 12 months + (Potential for extension)
H1B transfer is also fine.
Job Description:
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
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