Senior Kafka Platform Engineer (Confluent) - Remote

Valiant Technologies LLC; Maryland Heights (MO); Remote; USD 77,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable Confluent Platform clusters in a US-based remote role. You will implement security controls, manage connectors to S3, Trino, and OpenSearch, and automate tasks with Terraform and Ansible.

Strong English communication and on-call readiness are required. The role emphasizes production-grade reliability, cross-cluster replication, and DR testing, with a focus on observability and performance tuning

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Kafka/Confluent production experience.
• Experience with cross-cluster replication and disaster recovery.
• Terraform and Ansible automation with Git-based CI/CD.
• Strong security governance: TLS, SASL, RBAC.
• Experience observability with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• Excellent English communication in client-facing roles.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and office collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters.
• Monitor broker health, lag, throughput, and storage; tune performance.
• Manage Kafka topics, connectors, and integrations with S3, Trino, OpenSearch.
• Implement platform security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, certificate lifecycle.
• Automate provisioning and upgrades with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD.
• Plan backup, DR, cross-cluster replication, and testing.
• Lead on-call rotations, document root-cause analyses, and runbooks.
• Provide architectural guidance on Kafka and best practices.

Skills

Kafka Admin

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

CI/CD

Tools

Confluent Platform

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable Confluent Platform clusters in a US-based remote role. You will implement security controls, manage connectors to S3, Trino, and OpenSearch, and automate tasks with Terraform and Ansible.

Strong English communication and on-call readiness are required. The role emphasizes production-grade reliability, cross-cluster replication, and DR testing, with a focus on observability and performance tuning