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This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.\nJob Title: Kafka Platform Engineer\nL ocation: 100% Remote (U.S.)\nPosition Type: Full-time, Direct W2\nSalary Range: $130,000-$180,000 Annually (based on experience)\nExperience Required: 10+ Years\nSponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.\nJob Summary\nBright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kafka internals, platform automation, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, along with the ability to mentor engineering teams and define enterprise event-streaming standards.\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect, deploy, and manage highly available Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments supporting enterprise-scale event-driven applications.\nDesign Kafka cluster topology, broker configuration, partitioning strategies, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-throughput workloads.\nImplement enterprise-grade security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.\nDesign and manage Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and event streaming pipelines for real-time data integration.\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks to provision and manage Kafka infrastructure.\nDesign and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, and cross-region replication strategies.\nBuild comprehensive monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and Confluent monitoring tools.\nOptimize cluster performance, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term platform improvements.\nSupport Kafka deployments on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or managed cloud services including AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API), and Confluent Cloud.\nCollaborate with application developers, data engineers, DevOps, SRE, and enterprise architects to establish event-driven architecture standards and best practices.\nConduct architecture reviews, establish platform governance, perform code reviews, and mentor engineers on Kafka development and operations.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.\n10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience.\nExpert-level knowledge of Kafka internals, including partitions, replication, brokers, ISR, consumer groups, offset management, and performance tuning.\nExtensive experience implementing Kafka security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and enterprise authentication mechanisms.\nStrong hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and real-time event streaming architectures.\nExperience implementing High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), multi-cluster replication, and cross-region failover strategies.\nAdvanced scripting skills using Python, Bash, or Go, along with Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.\nStrong experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and distributed tracing solutions.\nExcellent troubleshooting, communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nConfluent Certified Administrator or Confluent Certified Developer certification.\nExperience operating Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or similar operators.\nHands-on experience with managed Kafka services including AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API), or Google Cloud Managed Kafka.\nExperience with stream processing technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Spark Structured Streaming, or Apache Beam.\nKnowledge of data governance, schema evolution, metadata management, and data lineage for streaming platforms.\nHow to Apply\nWould you like to know more about this opportunity?\nFor immediate consideration, please send your resume to  or contact us at (908) 505-3545. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.\nBright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement\nBright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.\nBV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. 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