Senior Kafka Platform Engineer: Scale & Secure Streaming

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Knutsford or Northampton seeks a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer to design, build and improve scalable, secure streaming platforms used across the organisation. You will work with Confluent Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling to deliver reliable data pipelines while collaborating with product, engineering and security teams to elevate platform resilience.

This role emphasizes automation, IaC, disaster recovery planning and adherence to secure coding practices to protect

Qualifications

• Design and implement enterprise-scale Kafka platforms across cloud and on‑premises.
• Ensure secure, reliable streaming with RBAC, TLS, and secret management.
• Collaborate with engineering, security and architecture teams to improve platform resilience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and optimize Kafka platforms for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and security teams to ensure platform resilience.
• Automate provisioning with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Performance optimization

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Kafka Connect

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Schema Registry

Job description

Barclays in Knutsford or Northampton seeks a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer to design, build and improve scalable, secure streaming platforms used across the organisation. You will work with Confluent Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling to deliver reliable data pipelines while collaborating with product, engineering and security teams to elevate platform resilience.

This role emphasizes automation, IaC, disaster recovery planning and adherence to secure coding practices to protect