Role: Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: Irvine, California (Hybrid, In Person/Face to Face Interview/Local Preferred)
Contract C2C/W2
Qualifications:
10+ years in platform engineering with 3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
Proficiency in Kafka client development using Java or Python.
Expertise with Confluent Platform (Brokers, Schema Registry, Control Center, ksqlDB).
Experience deploying and managing Kafka on AWS (including MSK or self-managed EC2-based setups).
Solid understanding of Kubernetes, especially EKS, for microservices integration.
Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and schema management.
Infrastructure automation experience with Terraform and Helm.
Should have to have Kafka Certification.
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
Preferred Qualifications:
Understanding of security best practices, including TLS, authentication (SASL, OAuth), RBAC, and encryption at rest.
Exposure to Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, or other stream processing engines.
Experience establishing Kafka governance frameworks and multi-tenant topic strategies.
Must Have & Desired Skills: Confluent Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS.