Kafka Platform Engineer — Real-Time Data Backbone

AEP Service Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

AEP Service Corporation is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to engineer and operate the enterprise Kafka platform, driving stability, scalability, and data safety for data movement across the organization. The role focuses on deploying connectors, containerizing services on OpenShift, and enabling CI/CD with modern tooling.

Responsibilities include monitoring, scaling Kafka clusters, collaborating with architects and product owners, and ensuring 12-Factor app principles across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field.
• 7 years of relevant work experience required.
• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka is listed as a certification.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage Kafka connectors in Confluent Kafka environments.
• Containerize and deploy microservices and connectors on OpenShift using Docker, YAML, and Kustomize.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD.

Skills

Kafka

OpenShift

Docker

CI/CD

Confluent

Cloud/AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

AEP Service Corporation is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to engineer and operate the enterprise Kafka platform, driving stability, scalability, and data safety for data movement across the organization. The role focuses on deploying connectors, containerizing services on OpenShift, and enabling CI/CD with modern tooling.

Responsibilities include monitoring, scaling Kafka clusters, collaborating with architects and product owners, and ensuring 12-Factor app principles across