Senior Data Streaming Engineer – Secure Kafka & Flink Lead

Apscareerportal; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apscareerportal in Woodlawn, MD seeks a Senior Data Streaming Engineer onsite to lead enterprise streaming implementations using Kafka, Flink, and related technologies. This role demands deep expertise in secure delivery, architecture patterns, and cross-team leadership.

You will design secure pipelines, guide security configurations (SSL/mTLS, SASL/OAUTHBEARER), and mentor teams while ensuring scalable, compliant streaming platforms. Onsite 5 days/week; in-person interview.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of IT experience including senior/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.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of enterprise streaming platforms using Kafka, Flink, and related tech.
• Define reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for streaming
• Mentor application and platform teams in secure streaming delivery practices.
• Drive secure CI/CD pipelines and vulnerability remediation in production environments.
• Collaborate across teams to optimize streaming performance and reliability.
• Create and maintain enterprise documentation and technical governance artifacts.

Skills

Kafka

Flink

Java

Avro

Confluent Schema Registry

CI/CD

DevSecOps

secure microservices

SSL/mTLS

SASL/OAUTHBEARER

Kafka security

broker/partitions etc.

troubleshooting

documentation & reference patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Jenkins

Maven

Bitbucket

Nexus

SonarQube

Job description

Apscareerportal in Woodlawn, MD seeks a Senior Data Streaming Engineer onsite to lead enterprise streaming implementations using Kafka, Flink, and related technologies. This role demands deep expertise in secure delivery, architecture patterns, and cross-team leadership.

You will design secure pipelines, guide security configurations (SSL/mTLS, SASL/OAUTHBEARER), and mentor teams while ensuring scalable, compliant streaming platforms. Onsite 5 days/week; in-person interview.