Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Streaming Architect

Ensisinfo Inc

Whitefish (MT)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Ensisinfo Inc is seeking a senior Kafka Engineer Administrator to join our team in Denver, MT. You will lead design, deployment, and operations of large-scale Kafka deployments, leveraging Confluent and CDP/CDH to drive reliable data streaming solutions.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise with Kafka, security configurations, and scripting, with strong collaboration across data engineering and application teams. A highly available, production-grade environment awaits your leadership.

Qualifications

5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and engineering.
Proficiency with Confluent Platform, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB.
Experience administering CDP or CDH.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Experience with Kafka security configurations including ACLs, SSL/TLS, and Kerberos.
Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python).
Excellent troubleshooting and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage Apache Kafka clusters in production.
Administer and optimize Confluent Platform and CDP environments.
Monitor Kafka broker performance, throughput, and latency.
Develop and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and replication configurations.
Collaborate with data engineering and application teams to integrate Kafka-based streaming pipelines.
Implement security practices including ACLs, SSL/TLS, and Kerberos authentication.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex Kafka infrastructure issues and performance bottlenecks.
Maintain documentation for architecture, configurations, and runbooks.