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Mizuho · 2 days ago

Data Platform Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$111K/yr - $150K/yr

Mizuho is a leading financial services provider, and they are seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and operate their enterprise event-streaming platform. The role involves ensuring a reliable and scalable streaming ecosystem, collaborating with application teams, and implementing event-driven integration patterns.

BankingFinancial ServicesImpact Investing

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and operate AMQ Streams (Kafka) clusters on Red Hat OpenShift

Configure and manage Kafka components including brokers, Kraft, MirrorMaker 2

Explore Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry concepts and implementations

Ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and high availability of the Kafka platform

Implement cluster monitoring, logging, and alerting using enterprise observability tools

Manage capacity planning, partition strategies, retention policies, and performance tuning

Define and document standardized event-driven integration patterns, including:

Event sourcing

CQRS

Pub/sub messaging

Change data capture

Stream processing & enrichment

Request-reply over Kafka

Guide application teams on using appropriate patterns that align with enterprise architecture

Establish best practices for schema design, topic governance, data contracts, and message lifecycle management

Implement enterprise-grade security for Kafka, including RBAC, TLS, ACLs, and authentication/authorization integration. (SSO and OAuth)

Maintain governance for topic creation, schema evolution, retention policies, and naming standards

Ensure adherence to compliance, auditing, and data protection requirements (Encryption at Rest and flight)

Provide platform guidance and troubleshooting expertise to development and integration teams

Partner with architects, SREs, and developers to drive adoption of event-driven architectures

Create documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge-sharing materials

Build and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD for declarative deployment of Kafka resources and platform configurations

Develop CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, enabling automated builds, infrastructure updates, and configuration promotion across environments

Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) repositories and templates for Kafka resources

Qualification

Kafka administrationOpenShift expertiseGitOps automationEvent-driven architectureScripting PythonScripting BashMonitoring toolsDevOps practicesProblem-solving skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

Proven experience with Kafka administration and management

Strong knowledge of OpenShift and container orchestration

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Bash

Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

Experience with Red Hat OpenShift administration

Knowledge of service mesh patterns (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh)

Familiarity with stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Flink)

Experience using observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)

Background working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments

Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Ansible, Terraform)

Knowledge of SRE Monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)

Benefits

Generous employee benefits package

Discretionary bonus

Company

Mizuho

This is not your typical financial institution. It’s our people who make us a cut above.

Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN

10001+ employees

https://www.mizuhogroup.com

H1B Sponsorship

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