Senior Data Streaming Engineer: Kafka & Secure CI/CD Leader

First Soft Solutions LLC; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite work 5 days/week

Job summary

First Soft Solutions LLC seeks a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to lead the design and implementation of secure, enterprise-grade streaming platforms using Kafka and Flink. You will guide cross-functional teams, define reference architectures, and deliver reusable streaming components.

The role emphasizes security, governance, and scalable streaming patterns across the organization, including mentoring and collaboration with multiple teams. Onsite in Woodlawn, MD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years IT experience including senior or advisory engineering roles.
• 5+ years in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments.
• Expert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry.
• Strong ability to define enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions.
• Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps practices with secure pipelines (Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, Nexus).
• Secure coding practices and enterprise vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security patterns.
• Create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable components.
• Mentor and collaborate across teams to resolve complex streaming performance issues.
• Hands-on design of secure microservices and streaming pipelines.

Skills

Kafka

Flink

Java

Avro

Confluent Schema Registry

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Security in CI/CD

Kafka Security (SSL/mTLS, SASL/OAUTHBE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

First Soft Solutions LLC seeks a Senior Data Streaming Engineer to lead the design and implementation of secure, enterprise-grade streaming platforms using Kafka and Flink. You will guide cross-functional teams, define reference architectures, and deliver reusable streaming components.

The role emphasizes security, governance, and scalable streaming patterns across the organization, including mentoring and collaboration with multiple teams. Onsite in Woodlawn, MD.