Senior Infrastructure Kafka Engineer

Phoenix, NM - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Opportunity: We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure - Kafka Engineer to join a high-performing data engineering team supporting large-scale event-driven data platforms. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer with deep experience in Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka messaging platforms SQL/NoSQL databases and cloud infrastructure who can lead engineering operations and automation efforts across complex enterprise environments.

This is a 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity supporting a hybrid work model in Phoenix AZ. The ideal candidate is a hands-on infrastructure engineer with strong experience designing resilient Kafka environments building real-time data pipelines and supporting production systems in fast-paced enterprise settings.

Role: Senior Infrastructure - Kafka Engineer
Experience: 7 Years
Work Location: Phoenix AZ (Hybrid - 4 days onsite / 1 day remote)
Project Duration: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire

Responsibilities
Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

Administer configure and troubleshoot Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments including broker and cluster configuration partitioning and performance tuning.
Design and implement scalable highly available Kafka infrastructure including disaster recovery and multi-environment strategies.
Integrate Kafka with upstream and downstream systems using Kafka Connect and related connectors including MQ MongoDB Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Build and support real-time data pipelines using Kafka producers and streaming consumers such as Spark Streaming and Kafka Streams.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration across environments using Terraform and modern DevOps practices.
Deploy and manage Kafka components and clients in production and disaster recovery environments ensuring resilience and recoverability.

Operations Observability & Support

Lead a small team of engineers and technicians in monitoring diagnosis and remediation of infrastructure issues.
Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting using tools such as Splunk Datadog and Grafana.
Perform proactive health checks and capacity planning to identify and resolve issues before they impact service.
Serve as a primary point of contact for daily operations major incidents and escalations related to Kafka and associated infrastructure.
Develop maintain and continuously improve runbooks and playbooks for incident response maintenance and recurring operational tasks.
Analyze support trends and incident patterns to reduce downtime and drive root-cause resolution.

Governance Compliance & Collaboration

Ensure infrastructure and platform changes comply with internal standards security policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
Partner with security networking application and data engineering teams to design and operate secure compliant event-driven architectures.
Contribute to standards best practices and technical documentation for Kafka messaging and integration patterns.
Participate in agile ceremonies and help influence technical direction for streaming and integration platforms.

Required Qualifications

7 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on:
- Kafka administration across on-prem and cloud environments
- Kafka ecosystem components including brokers topics consumer groups replication and failover
- Messaging systems such as MQ
- SQL and NoSQL database integration
Proven experience designing deploying and scaling Kafka clusters and connector infrastructure in production and DR environments.
Hands-on experience building real-time data pipelines using Kafka producers and streaming consumers such as Spark Streaming.
Strong proficiency with at least one major cloud platform: AWS GCP or Azure.
Experience with event-driven architectures containerization and DevOps practices.
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk Datadog and Grafana.
Solid understanding of networking Linux/Windows operating systems and core diagnostic tools.
Proficiency with source control tools such as SVN and Git.
Scripting and programming experience with tools such as PowerShell Bash Python or Perl.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues make sound decisions with limited information and drive issues through resolution.
Strong communication customer service and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with additional enterprise monitoring and infrastructure support tools.
Experience working in highly regulated enterprise environments.
Prior exposure to large-scale data engineering or integration platforms.

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electronics Engineering or equivalent professional experience.

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Technologent is a Global Provider of Edge-to-Edge Information Technology Solutions and Services for Fortune 1000 and SMB companies. We offer a unique blend of business practices that are aligned to solve for top CIO concerns. Our core competencies focus on data center infrastructure business continuity data protection service automation and orchestration continuous intelligence monitoring connectivity collaboration and cybersecurity. These practices are supported by our professional services digital transformation services and financial services offerings. By providing custom solutions and services designed to fit your business needs we enable your organization to be more agile responsive and competitive. Technologent empowers your company to ascend to the next level in IT.

Headquartered in Irvine CA Technologent has offices throughout the US and proudly serves clients around the world. When partnering with Technologent organizations benefit from the highest caliber of professionals committed to delivering exceptional business outcomes backed by unmatched service and support.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

The Opportunity: We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure - Kafka Engineer to join a high-performing data engineering team supporting large-scale event-driven data platforms. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer with deep experience in Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka messaging platforms SQL/NoSQL...

Role: Senior Infrastructure - Kafka Engineer
Experience: 7 Years
Work Location: Phoenix AZ (Hybrid - 4 days onsite / 1 day remote)
Project Duration: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire

Responsibilities
Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

Administer configure and troubleshoot Kafka clusters across on-prem and cloud environments including broker and cluster configuration partitioning and performance tuning.
Design and implement scalable highly available Kafka infrastructure including disaster recovery and multi-environment strategies.
Integrate Kafka with upstream and downstream systems using Kafka Connect and related connectors including MQ MongoDB Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Build and support real-time data pipelines using Kafka producers and streaming consumers such as Spark Streaming and Kafka Streams.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration across environments using Terraform and modern DevOps practices.
Deploy and manage Kafka components and clients in production and disaster recovery environments ensuring resilience and recoverability.

Operations Observability & Support

Lead a small team of engineers and technicians in monitoring diagnosis and remediation of infrastructure issues.
Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting using tools such as Splunk Datadog and Grafana.
Perform proactive health checks and capacity planning to identify and resolve issues before they impact service.
Serve as a primary point of contact for daily operations major incidents and escalations related to Kafka and associated infrastructure.
Develop maintain and continuously improve runbooks and playbooks for incident response maintenance and recurring operational tasks.
Analyze support trends and incident patterns to reduce downtime and drive root-cause resolution.

Governance Compliance & Collaboration

Ensure infrastructure and platform changes comply with internal standards security policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
Partner with security networking application and data engineering teams to design and operate secure compliant event-driven architectures.
Contribute to standards best practices and technical documentation for Kafka messaging and integration patterns.
Participate in agile ceremonies and help influence technical direction for streaming and integration platforms.

Required Qualifications

7 years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on:
- Kafka administration across on-prem and cloud environments
- Kafka ecosystem components including brokers topics consumer groups replication and failover
- Messaging systems such as MQ
- SQL and NoSQL database integration
Proven experience designing deploying and scaling Kafka clusters and connector infrastructure in production and DR environments.
Hands-on experience building real-time data pipelines using Kafka producers and streaming consumers such as Spark Streaming.
Strong proficiency with at least one major cloud platform: AWS GCP or Azure.
Experience with event-driven architectures containerization and DevOps practices.
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk Datadog and Grafana.
Solid understanding of networking Linux/Windows operating systems and core diagnostic tools.
Proficiency with source control tools such as SVN and Git.
Scripting and programming experience with tools such as PowerShell Bash Python or Perl.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues make sound decisions with limited information and drive issues through resolution.
Strong communication customer service and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with additional enterprise monitoring and infrastructure support tools.
Experience working in highly regulated enterprise environments.
Prior exposure to large-scale data engineering or integration platforms.

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electronics Engineering or equivalent professional experience.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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