Remote Platform Integration Engineer - Kafka & Event-Driven

Rapid IT, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapid IT, Inc. is seeking a Platform Integration Engineer for a contract, long-term engagement. The role is 100% remote, with onsite interview options in the United States at the candidate's expense, in Vienna, VA or Pensacola, FL or San Diego, CA.

You will support enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms, lead Kafka deployments across Dev/QA/Prod, and ensure HA/DR with secure configurations. Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms.
• 3+ years hands-on administration with Confluent Kafka.
• Experience managing multi-environment Kafka deployments.
• Knowledge of cluster sizing, partitioning, replication, and capacity planning.
• Troubleshooting producer, consumer, broker, and cluster issues.
• Proficiency with Control Center, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB, and streaming tech.
• Experience HA/DR and multi-cluster replication strategies.
• Kafka security: TLS, MTLS, RBAC, ACLs, encryption, auth.
• Kafka integration with Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud, observability, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster replication for Kafka deployments.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end messaging issues across environments.
• Integrate Kafka with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud platforms.
• Operate and tune Confluent components (Control Center, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqliDB).
• Collaborate on data contracts and enterprise integration patterns.

Skills

Enterprise messaging

Event-driven architecture

Kafka administration

Kafka security

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Disaster recovery

Multi-cluster replication

Data contracts

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Confluent Control Center

Schema Registry

Connect

ksqlDB

Job description

Rapid IT, Inc. is seeking a Platform Integration Engineer for a contract, long-term engagement. The role is 100% remote, with onsite interview options in the United States at the candidate's expense, in Vienna, VA or Pensacola, FL or San Diego, CA.

You will support enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms, lead Kafka deployments across Dev/QA/Prod, and ensure HA/DR with secure configurations. Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD skills are required.