Senior Technology Architect – Kafka

Trilyon, Inc.; Tunnel Hill (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilyon, Inc. seeks a Senior Technology Architect with 10+ years of experience in event streaming and Kafka platform engineering. Hybrid work in Tunnel Hill, GA, with strong Kubernetes, Confluent Platform, and cloud-native expertise to design, deploy, and manage complex data streaming solutions.

The role requires hands-on work with Kafka security, monitoring, and scaling, plus Terraform/GitOps automation and end-to-end platform reliability in AWS/Azure/GCP environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in event streaming, Kafka platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud, including cluster design and topic management.
• Experience deploying Confluent Platform on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD automation is required.

Responsibilities

• Kafka platform setup and environment standardization.
• Cluster upgrades and certificate renewal.
• ZooKeeper to KRaft migration planning and execution.
• Disaster recovery support and capacity planning.
• Incident resolution and production readiness reviews.
• Designing monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and other tools.
• Supporting cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP, including networking and IAM.
• Using Terraform for Confluent Cloud provisioning, including environments, clusters, topics, and access automation.

Skills

Confluent Kafka

Docker

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

CI/CD tooling

Job description

For over 16 years, Trilyon has been a leader in global workforce solutions, specializing in Cloud Technology, AI/ML, Software Development, Technical Writing, and Digital Transformation. We partner with top companies to deliver high-quality talent in engineering, IT, and emerging technologies

Job Title: Senior Technology Architect – Kafka

Location: Tunnel Hill, GA 30755

Work Model: Hybrid

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Technology Architect with 10+ years of experience in event streaming, Kafka platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure.

The candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud, including cluster design, topic management, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, RBAC, ACLs, quotas, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Experience deploying and operating Confluent Platform on Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, and CI/CD automation is required. Ansible-based Confluent Platform installation, upgrade automation, and configuration management experience is highly valuable.

The role requires practical knowledge of Kafka security, including SASL_SSL, mTLS, certificates, secrets, service accounts, identity pools, API keys, RBAC, ACLs, and secure connectivity patterns.

Responsibilities

• Kafka platform setup and environment standardization.
• Cluster upgrades and certificate renewal.
• ZooKeeper to KRaft migration planning and execution.
• Disaster recovery support and capacity planning.
• Incident resolution and production readiness reviews.
• Designing monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, JMX Exporter, OpenTelemetry, Confluent Metrics API, Datadog, Splunk, or similar tools.
• Supporting cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP, including networking, private endpoints, DNS, firewall rules, IAM, key vaults/secrets, storage, and secure access.
• Using Terraform for Confluent Cloud provisioning, including environments, clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, identity pools, RBAC/ACLs, networking, and access automation.

Top Skills

• 1. Confluent Kafka
• 3. Docker