Kafka Platform Engineer hos Veritaz i Solna

Veritaz is a leading IT staffing solutions provider in Sweden, committed to advancing individual careers and aiding employers in ensuring the perfect talent fit. With a proven track record of successful partnerships with top companies, we have rapidly grown our presence in the USA, Europe, and Sweden as a dependable and trusted resource within the IT industry.

We are looking for an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer

What You Will Work On

Design, deploy, and maintain multi-cluster, multi-region Apache Kafka environments using Strimzi on Kubernetes and enterprise HiveMQ brokers.

Manage Kafka, Strimzi, and HiveMQ upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation.

Develop and maintain Kafka Connect source and sink connectors.

Optimise Kafka partitions, topics, retention, compaction, storage, and resource allocation.

Design high-availability, disaster recovery, cross-region replication, and automated failover solutions.

Manage Schema Registries for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema.

Implement platform security using Kafka ACLs, SASL, mTLS, OAuth/OIDC, and RBAC.

Configure traffic routing, ingress layers, and messaging platform access.

Build monitoring, dashboards, and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Fluent Bit.

Perform root cause analysis, troubleshoot production incidents, and provide Tier 3 support.

Advise Java and Spring Boot teams on Kafka producer and consumer configurations.

Develop reusable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.

Automate infrastructure using Helm, Terraform, and KEDA.

Improve developer self-service tooling, documentation, and platform provisioning processes.

Handle platform-level incident, problem, and change management.