Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $130,000–$180,000 Annually (based on experience)
Experience Required: 10+ Years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kafka internals, platform automation, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, along with the ability to mentor engineering teams and define enterprise event-streaming standards.
Key Responsibilities
Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments supporting enterprise-scale event-driven applications
Design Kafka cluster topology, broker configuration, partitioning strategies, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-throughput workloads
Implement enterprise-grade security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and authentication mechanisms
Design and manage Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and event streaming pipelines for real-time data integration
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks to provision and manage Kafka infrastructure
Design and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, and cross-region replication strategies
Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and Confluent monitoring tools
Optimize cluster performance, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term platform improvements
Support Kafka deployments on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or managed cloud services including AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API), and Confluent Cloud
Collaborate with application developers, data engineers, DevOps, SRE, and enterprise architects to establish event-driven architecture standards and best practices
Conduct architecture reviews, establish platform governance, perform code reviews, and mentor engineers on Kafka development and operations
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline
10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience
Expert-level knowledge of Kafka internals, including partitions, replication, brokers, ISR, consumer groups, offset management, and performance tuning
Extensive experience implementing Kafka security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and enterprise authentication mechanisms
Strong hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and real-time event streaming architectures
Experience implementing High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), multi-cluster replication, and cross-region failover strategies
Advanced scripting skills using Python, Bash, or Go, along with Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
Strong experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and distributed tracing solutions
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills
Preferred Qualifications
Confluent Certified Administrator or Confluent Certified Developer certification
Experience operating Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or similar operators
Hands-on experience with managed Kafka services including AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API), or Google Cloud Managed Kafka
Experience with stream processing technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, or Apache Beam
Knowledge of data governance, schema evolution, metadata management, and data lineage for streaming platforms
How To Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity?
For immediate consideration, please send your resume to jaya@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3545. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.
BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
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