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Title: Sr. Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Rate: 15 years of experience.
About the Role:
• We are seeking a Principal Kafka Engineer to lead the management, scaling, and optimization of our enterprise event-streaming ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Apache/Confluent Kafka, applies object-oriented programming principles to advanced automation, and uses ITSM practices to support reliable, high-quality service delivery.
Required Qualifications:
Experience: 3–5+ years of Kafka administration experience and 15+ years in software development or systems engineering.
Technical Skills:
• Expertise in Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Avro, and KSQL.
• Proficient in Cluster Management - Zookeeper, KRaft
• Strong object-oriented programming skills; Java, Go, Python
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
• Java backend development experience with Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of architecture and design concepts, with the ability to create and maintain architecture artifacts.
• Proficient in containerization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, and GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in Domain Driven Design and Enterprise Application Integration.
• Experience with observability, telemetry, and APM tools such as dynaTrace.
• Good understanding of networking, storage, virtualization, and other infrastructure architecture.
• Self-starter with a goal-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in supporting a Highly Available Low Latent Enterprise Application in Production environment(s).
• Experience working with globally distributed team(s).
• Frameworks: Solid understanding of ITSM/ITIL frameworks and Agile methodologies.
Best Regards,
Rajesh(Ken)
Cymansys Solutions LLC
📧 Email: ken@cymansys.com
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