Remote Kafka Platform Engineer (AWS/Confluent)

Artifintech; Maryland Heights (MO); Remote; USD 80,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifintech is seeking a Kafka Administrator to design, deploy and maintain high-availability Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform clusters across production and non-production environments.

You will monitor broker performance, implement security controls, and automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible while coordinating with application teams and vendors. English communication is essential, including incident leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years administering Kafka/Confluent in production.
• 3+ years troubleshooting complex Kafka issues and Connect failures.
• 3+ years automating infra with Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD.
• Experience with cross-cluster replication, backup and DR testing.
• Deep Kafka security, RBAC, TLS/SASL, audit controls.
• Strong observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch or equivalents.
• Excellent English communication; lead incidents and document root causes.
• Able to work in-office and participate in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Apache Kafka and Confluent clusters.
• Monitor health, performance, replication, and connector status; tune for reliability.
• Build and support topics, partitions, schemas, and connectors (S3, Trino, OpenSearch).
• Implement and maintain security controls (TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC).
• Automate provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and patching with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD.
• Plan backup, recovery, failover, cross-cluster replication, DR procedures.
• Lead production support, on-call rotations, and incident resolution with teams.
• Provide guidance on Kafka architecture and runbooks; maintain diagrams and capacity plans.

Skills

Kafka Administration

Confluent Platform

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

English communication

On-call rotation

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Tools

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

Confluent Control Center

Schema Registry

Job description

Artifintech is seeking a Kafka Administrator to design, deploy and maintain high-availability Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform clusters across production and non-production environments.

You will monitor broker performance, implement security controls, and automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible while coordinating with application teams and vendors. English communication is essential, including incident leadership.