Kafka Engineer - Middleware - Hedge Fund - $250K+

Oliver Bernard; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard represents a world-leading hedge fund client seeking an experienced Kafka/Middleware Engineer to join their North American team on a hybrid basis. The role focuses on distributed systems, load balancing, and secrets management with tools such as Keycloak and Vault, across Linux environments, delivering resilient, low-latency services.

Kubernetes, cloud, and automation knowledge are a plus. You will own projects, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with SRE to scale 24/7

Qualifications

• Experience as middleware engineer in 24/7 trading/finance environments
• SRE/production support knowledge and incident handling
• Understanding of distributed systems and networking latency

Responsibilities

• Own middleware engineering tasks and drive end-to-end delivery
• Lead load balancing and capacity planning across services
• Collaborate with SRE and security teams on secrets management

Skills

Kafka

Middleware

SRE

Distributed

Networking

Keycloak

Vault

Linux

Scripting

Python

Kubernetes

Cloud

Automation

Tools

Keycloak

Vault

Kubernetes

Job description

Kafka Engineer - Middleware - Hedge Fund - $250K+

Our client is one of the world's leading trading firms, at the cutting edge of financial technology, trading and quantitative analytics.

In London, with hybrid working, they're looking to hire an experienced Messaging Engineer with good Kafka experience, to drive the growth of this area.

Working in a small, agile team, you'll have real ownership over your work and be regarding as a technical expert in North America.

You'll have the opportunity to work across tools such as Kafka, Keycloak and Vault and drive projects across areas such as secrets management and load balancing.

This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced engineer to take the next step in their career, join a forward-thinking and growing team at a globally-renowned trading firm - Not something to miss!

Requirements:

• Excellent background as a middleware engineer, ideally in a 24/7 trading / finance environment.
• SRE / production support knowledge
• Experience working with distributed systems
• A good understanding of networking, latency, and failover strategy.
• Knowledge of tools such as Keycloak and Vault
• Experience with capacity management, performance tuning, and system scaling.
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Any knowledge of DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, Cloud and automation would be ideal