Kafka Infra Engineer — Consultant (Travel Required)

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 156,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Open Systems Technologies, Inc. in New York, NY seeks an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Kafka design, deployment, and maintenance. You will collaborate with development teams to automate Kafka workflows using industry-standard tools and contribute to capacity planning and security controls.

The role emphasizes incident resolution, performance tuning, and driving automation across Kafka operations within an enterprise DevOps environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems.
• Graduate coursework in Software Engineering, Foundations of Programming, Operating Systems, Advanced Operating Systems, Computing Networks, and Cloud Computing.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of Kafka clusters.
• Collaborate with development teams to automate Kafka processes using Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
• Investigate and resolve complex Kafka issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Implement and maintain robust security controls for Kafka (authentication, authorization, encryption).
• Provide strategic architectural guidance and capacity planning aligned with business needs.

Skills

Automation

Security controls

High availability

Capacity planning

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems

Tools

Kafka

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Job description

Open Systems Technologies, Inc. in New York, NY seeks an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Kafka design, deployment, and maintenance. You will collaborate with development teams to automate Kafka workflows using industry-standard tools and contribute to capacity planning and security controls.

The role emphasizes incident resolution, performance tuning, and driving automation across Kafka operations within an enterprise DevOps environment.