Integration Platform Engineer

Job Description

Required Experience:
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven platforms.
• 3+ years of hands-on administration experience with Confluent Kafka.
• Experience managing multi-environment Kafka deployments (Development, QA, Performance, DR, and Production).
• Experience with Kafka cluster sizing, broker management, partition strategy, replication, retention policies, and capacity planning.
• Experience in troubleshooting producer, consumer, broker, and cluster-level issues.
• Experience with Confluent Control Center, Schema Registry, Connect, ksqlDB, and stream processing technologies.
• Experience implementing high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-cluster replication strategies.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka security, including TLS, mTLS, RBAC, ACLs, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience integrating Kafka with Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud platforms, observability tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, data contracts, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Preferred candidates with confluent certifications