Senior Kafka Platform Engineer
Summary
A senior platform engineer owns and operates a multi-cluster Kafka platform (Strimzi on AKS/Kubernetes) for a retail-sector client in Stockholm (hybrid, onsite-leaning), handling upgrades, HA/DR, security, monitoring and Tier 3 support, while advising Java/Spring Boot teams and administering HiveMQ MQTT brokers.
emagine is looking for: Senior Kafka Platform Engineer
Our client in the retail sector is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to own and develop their Kafka platform on Kubernetes (you build it, you run it) and act as Kafka expert for the development teams.
Start: ASAP
Location: Stockholm (hybrid)
Responsibilities
Operate, upgrade, and scale multi-cluster Kafka environments (Strimzi on AKS), including HA/DR
Kafka security (ACLs, mTLS, SASL, OAuth), Connectors, and Schema Registry
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and Tier 3 support
Advise Java/Spring Boot teams on client configuration
Administer HiveMQ MQTT brokers
Requirements
4+ years of platform-level Kafka experience (Strimzi, Kafka Connect, KRaft)
Strong AKS/Kubernetes experience
Java and Spring Boot
GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform
Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
HiveMQ experience