Sr. Kafka Engineer

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

We are seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer with strong experience in Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platform engineering. The role involves designing, deploying, administering, and supporting enterprise Kafka environments, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and production support.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, deploy, and administer Confluent Cloud/Kafka platforms.
• Provide 24x7 on-call production support and resolve critical issues.
• Partner with architecture teams to align platform design with modern engineering practices.
• Develop automation for platform operations including deployments, restarts, patching, and upgrades.
• Manage platform patching, roadmap execution, and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure stability, scalability, and performance of Kafka-based systems.

Required Experience

• 5+ years in platform engineering or middleware technologies with focus on Kafka/Confluent Cloud.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in Kafka/Confluent installation, configuration, and administration.
• 3+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux systems, including storage, file systems, and networking.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and messaging architectures (3+ years).
• 2+ years of experience creating technical documentation and operational runbooks.

Required Technical Skills

• 3+ years of production support experience with Kafka/Confluent platforms (troubleshooting and defect resolution).
• Strong experience in DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Hands‑on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or similar.
• Proficiency with GitHub or other version control systems.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills, including log analysis and system diagnostics.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with application performance monitoring tools (Dynatrace, VisualVM, JProfiler).
• Knowledge of JVM tuning, web container tuning, and database connection pool optimization.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Agile, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation frameworks.