Integration Platform Engineer (Kafka)
Merrifield, VA - USA
Job Summary
Location: Remote however the interviews must be completed at a campus.
Duration: Initial 6 months contract with extensions
Work Requirements:USC GC or Authorized to work in the US
Required Experience
5 years of experience supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms.
3 years of hands-on administration experience with Confluent Kafka.
Experience managing multi-environment Kafka deployments (Development QA Performance DR and Production).
Experience with Kafka cluster sizing broker management partition strategy replication retention policies and capacity planning.
Experience in troubleshooting producer consumer broker and cluster-level issues.
Experience with Confluent Control Center Schema Registry Connect ksqlDB and stream processing technologies.
Experience implementing high availability disaster recovery and multi-cluster replication strategies.
Hands-on experience with Kafka security including TLS mTLS RBAC ACLs encryption and authentication mechanisms.
Experience integrating Kafka with Kubernetes/OpenShift cloud platforms observability tools and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong understanding of event-driven architecture data contracts and enterprise integration patterns.
Preferred candidates with confluent certifications
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