Senior Confluent Platform Engineer - 18672

Assignment Description

We are looking for a Senior Confluent Platform Specialist / Kafka Engineer

What You Will Work On

• Implement, configure, and develop Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud
• Evaluate and establish Confluent Cloud as a complement to the existing Kafka platform
• Automate platform installation, configuration, provisioning, and lifecycle management
• Develop a unified integration platform together with Red Hat AMQ Broker and other platforms
• Improve Developer Experience through:Automation
• Self-service
• Standardized processes

Integrate platform capabilities with Backstage

Support developer onboarding, documentation, and self-service platform provisioning

Implement and manage:

• Kafka Connect
• Schema Registry
• Kafka Brokers
• Cluster Linking
• RBAC
• ACLs

Ensure high availability, security, reliability, and operational stability

Perform monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization

Support capacity planning and platform lifecycle management

Implement Kafka security including authentication, authorization, certificates, encryption, and Identity Provider integrations

Work with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD

Collaborate closely with development teams and provide technical guidance

Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing

What You Bring

• Several years of hands-on experience implementing, configuring, and managing Confluent Platform in production
• Practical experience with Confluent Cloud
• Deep knowledge of Apache Kafka and Confluent platform components
• Strong experience with:Kafka Brokers
• Kafka Connect
• Schema Registry
• Cluster Linking
• RBAC
• ACL

Experience operating Confluent Platform on Red Hat OpenShift

Experience with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) is highly valuable

Strong Kafka Connect experience, including connectors and common integration patterns

Experience automating platforms using:

• Terraform
• Git
• CI/CD

Experience with monitoring, logging, capacity planning, and Kafka performance optimization

Strong knowledge of Kafka and Confluent security

Experience building Developer Experience through automation, self-service, and standardization

Good understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and resilient platform architecture

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and provide technical guidance to development teams

Interested? Please share your updated CV at cv@veritaz.se to proceed further.