Kafka Platform Engineer - OpenShift & Streaming

Capgemini; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 54,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer for a 2-month 6-day on-site contract in Columbus, OH. You will engineer, administer, and enhance the enterprise Kafka platform that serves as the backbone for real-time data movement and event-driven architectures across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include developing producers/consumers, administering clusters, deploying connectors, configuring security, and building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

Qualifications

• Experience with managing and scaling the Kafka platform in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of streaming architectures and event-driven integration.
• Experience configuring security, RBAC, TLS, and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop Kafka producers, consumers, and stream-processing solutions.
• Administer Kafka clusters, topics, brokers, consumer groups, and connectors.
• Deploy and manage Kafka Connect integrations.
• Configure Schema Registry, ACLs, RBAC, TLS, and platform security controls.
• Develop custom connectors using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Deploy Kafka workloads to OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Monitor platform health using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
• Support CDC integrations using Oracle GoldenGate and Debezium.
• Drive platform standardization, automation, and self-service enablement.

Tools

Confluent Platform

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

OpenShift

Docker

Java/Spring Boot

GitHub

Oracle GoldenGate

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Capgemini is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer for a 2-month 6-day on-site contract in Columbus, OH. You will engineer, administer, and enhance the enterprise Kafka platform that serves as the backbone for real-time data movement and event-driven architectures across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include developing producers/consumers, administering clusters, deploying connectors, configuring security, and building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.