The Kafka Platform Engineer is responsible for engineering, administering, and enhancing the enterprise Kafka platform.
The platform serves as the strategic event-streaming backbone for real-time data movement, application integration, and event-driven architectures across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Kafka producers, consumers, and stream-processing solutions.
Administer Kafka clusters, topics, brokers, consumer groups, and connectors.
Deploy and manage Kafka Connect integrations.
Configure Schema Registry, ACLs, RBAC, TLS, and platform security controls.
Develop custom connectors using Java and Spring Boot.
Build automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
Deploy Kafka workloads to OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
Monitor platform health using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
Support CDC integrations using Oracle GoldenGate and Debezium.
Drive platform standardization, automation, and self-service enablement.
Required Skills:
Apache Kafka
Confluent Platform
Kafka Connect
Schema Registry
OpenShift
Kubernetes
Docker
Java/Spring Boot
GitHub
Linux
Preferred Skills:
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $39.59/hour - $61.86/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.
