Kafka platform engineer
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Summary
Onsite engineer in Harris County, Texas who installs, secures, automates, monitors, and validates enterprise Apache Kafka clusters (KRaft mode) while also doing senior Kafka development — building event-driven applications, producers, consumers, stream-processing components, and operational tooling. Combines Kafka platform, security/network engineering, and development work.
Summary: The role combines Kafka platform engineering, security and network engineering, and senior Kafka development. The engineer will install, configure, secure, automate, monitor, and validate enterprise Apache Kafka environments while developing and supporting reliable event-driven applications, integrations, producers, consumers, stream-processing components, and operational tooling. Key Responsibilities Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and operate Apache Kafka clusters using KRaft mod…