Kafka Platform Engineer: Real-Time Data Backbone

American Electric Power Co.; Columbus, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power Co. seeks an experienced Kafka engineer to operate and scale the enterprise data backbone. You will deploy connectors, containerize services, and implement automated pipelines for reliable real-time data movement across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will monitor clusters with industry tools, troubleshoot complex data flows, and collaborate with architects to enforce standards and security across deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field.
• 7 years’ relevant work experience required; equivalent education/experience considered.
• Confluent Certified Administrator or Developer is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage Kafka connectors and data movement in Confluent Kafka environments.
• Containerize and deploy microservices and connectors on OpenShift.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Perform basic Kafka administration: topics, partitions, replication, monitoring.
• Collaborate with architects and teams to deliver scalable data integrations.

Skills

Kafka

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS/Azure

Confluent

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Confluent Control Center

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

OpenShift

Job description

American Electric Power Co. seeks an experienced Kafka engineer to operate and scale the enterprise data backbone. You will deploy connectors, containerize services, and implement automated pipelines for reliable real-time data movement across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will monitor clusters with industry tools, troubleshoot complex data flows, and collaborate with architects to enforce standards and security across deployments.