Senior Data Streaming Engineer

Vervic Inc.; Woodlawn (MD); Presencial; USD 85.000 - 121.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vervic Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Streaming Engineer in Woodlawn, MD, onsite five days a week.

You will lead enterprise streaming initiatives, architect scalable pipelines, and mentor cross‑functional teams working with Kafka, Flink, Java, and Confluent Schema Registry. The role emphasizes secure delivery, CI/CD security, and governance—defining reference architectures, patterns, and reusable components; you will troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, manage security configurations, and drive

Formación

• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years IT experience including senior roles.
• 5+ years in enterprise streaming or secure delivery environments.
• Expert-level Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry expertise.
• Define enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions.
• Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks.
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps practices experience.
• Secure CI/CD pipelines design with Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus.
• Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding.
• POAM-aligned remediation workflows.
• Hands-on design of secure microservices.
• Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER.
• Knowledge of Kafka internals: brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, health.
• Troubleshoot lag, serialization failures, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks.
• Create enterprise docs, standards, architectures, reusable patterns.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsabilidades

• Guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, and streaming delivery.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, standards, and reusable streaming components.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate across multiple teams to resolve complex incidents.
• Oversee secure development practices including schema governance and RBAC.
• Participate in architecture governance and CoE initiatives.

Conocimientos

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Troubleshooting

Mentoring

Enterprise security practices

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Kafka

Flink

Java

Avro

Confluent Schema Registry

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Jenkins

Maven

Bitbucket

Nexus

Black Duck

SonarQube

Fortify

Descripción del empleo

Title: Senior Data Streaming Engineer

Location: Woodlawn, MD Onsite: 5 Days/Week Rate: $75/hr C2C Interview: In-Person

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments
• Expert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry
• Strong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions
• Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks
• Strong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices
• Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus
• Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practices
• Experience with POAM-aligned remediation workflows
• Hands-on experience designing secure microservices
• Experience with Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER
• Strong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster health
• Experience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks
• Ability to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organization
• Federal government or regulated-environment experience
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Experience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platforms
• Confluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka security
• Large-scale streaming workloads and streaming architecture
• Schema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies
• Building shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming components
• Advanced distributed-system debugging and production incident triage

The role requires a senior technical leader who can guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, schema governance, microservices, and secure streaming delivery. Senior Data Streaming Engineer

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