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Solugenix · 3 hours ago

Kafka Platform Engineer

Irvine, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$75/hr - $90/hr

8+ years exp

Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in their search for a Kafka Platform Engineer. This role involves managing, enhancing, and scaling an enterprise-grade Apache Kafka implementation deployed on AWS and the Confluent Platform, ensuring reliability and performance in a FinTech environment.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyStaffing Agency

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Mona Smolenak

Responsibilities

Manage and enhance existing Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform on AWS

Review existing implementations and recommend improvements

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate new use cases and define scalable streaming patterns

Implement and maintain Kafka producers/consumers, Connectors, and Kafka Streams applications

Enforce governance around topic design, schema evolution, partitioning, and data retention

Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune Kafka clusters using Confluent Control Center, Prometheus, and Grafana

Use Kubernetes and Terraform to automate Kafka infrastructure deployment and scaling

Ensure high availability, security and disaster recovery

Mentor other engineers and provide leadership in Kafka-related initiatives

Qualification

Apache KafkaConfluent PlatformAWSKubernetesJavaPythonTerraformKafka ConnectKafka StreamsMonitoring toolsKafka CertificationSoft skills

Required

8+ years in platform engineering with 3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka

Proficiency in Kafka client development using Java or Python

Expertise with Confluent Platform (Brokers, Schema Registry, Control Center, ksqlDB)

Experience deploying and managing Kafka on AWS (including MSK or self-managed EC2-based setups)

Solid understanding of Kubernetes, especially EKS, for microservices integration

Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and schema management

Infrastructure automation experience with Terraform and Helm

Familiarity with monitoring and alerting stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar

Preferred

Prior experience in the FinTech domain or other regulated industries

Understanding of security best practices, including TLS, authentication (SASL, OAuth), RBAC, and encryption at rest

Exposure to Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, or other stream processing engines

Experience establishing Kafka governance frameworks and multi-tenant topic strategies

Must Have & Desired Skills: Confluent Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS

Nice to have Kafka Certification

Company

Solugenix

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Solugenix is a leading IT services and staffing firm providing IT service management, support center services and more.

Founded in 1969

Irvine, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.solugenix.com/

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