Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Confluent Cloud & Automation

Veriipro; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer to design and support Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platforms. The role requires strong skills in automation, production support, and system administration.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in platform engineering focused on Kafka, UNIX/Linux environments, and DevSecOps practices. The position is based in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering with a focus on Kafka/Confluent Cloud.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience configuring and administering Kafka.
• 3+ years with UNIX/Linux systems including storage and file systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, deploy and administer Kafka platforms.
• Provide 24x7 on-call production support.
• Develop automation for platform operations.

Skills

Kafka/Confluent Cloud

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)

Linux

Tools

GitHub

Dynatrace

VisualVM

JProfiler

Job description

Veriipro is seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer to design and support Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platforms. The role requires strong skills in automation, production support, and system administration.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in platform engineering focused on Kafka, UNIX/Linux environments, and DevSecOps practices. The position is based in Fort Mill, South Carolina.