Remote AWS Kafka Engineer — Real-Time Data Platform

Robotics Technologies LLC; Maryland Heights (MO); Remote; USD 80,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Technologies LLC is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage high-availability Apache Kafka/Confluent Platform clusters for real-time data processing. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable engineering practices across production and non-production environments.

You will build Connect integrations, manage topics, and contribute to disaster recovery planning while collaborating with application and data teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years administering enterprise Kafka/Confluent Platform environments.
• 3+ years troubleshooting complex Kafka issues.
• 3+ years automating infra with Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, upgrade, and maintain Kafka clusters for real-time data processing.
• Monitor health, performance, and reliability; optimize downtime.
• Build and manage topics, partitions, schemas, and Connect integrations (S3, Trino, OpenSearch).
• Implement security controls (TLS, SASL, RBAC, ACLs) and certificate lifecycle practices.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and patching with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and Python.

Skills

Kafka administration

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Python scripting

Security and governance

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Confluent Platform

OpenSearch

Kafka Connect

Job description

Robotics Technologies LLC is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage high-availability Apache Kafka/Confluent Platform clusters for real-time data processing. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable engineering practices across production and non-production environments.

You will build Connect integrations, manage topics, and contribute to disaster recovery planning while collaborating with application and data teams in a fast-paced environment.