Job Description
Job Title: Kafka Developer
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States- Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.
Key Responsibilities:
• Platform Architecture & Design
• Define and evolve the enterprise Kafka architecture, including cluster sizing, partitioning strategies, replication, and high availability.
• Establish patterns for producers, consumers, and stream processing applications using Confluent components (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, kSQLDB).
• Design multi-region disaster recovery and failover strategies aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Platform Governance & Standards
• Implement naming conventions, topic lifecycle policies, and schema evolution standards.
• Define RBAC and security guardrails leveraging Confluent Control Center, ACLs, and encryption (TLS, SASL).
• Ensure compliance with internal governance and regulatory frameworks.
• Performance & Observability
• Set up monitoring and alerting for throughput, latency, consumer lag, and broker health using Confluent Control Center and integrated observability tools.
• Optimize performance for large-scale streaming workloads; tune configurations for reliability and cost efficiency.
• Integration & Enablement
• Architect connectors for core banking systems, cloud data lakes, and analytics platforms.
• Provide reusable patterns and onboarding guides for application teams; enable self-service provisioning where appropriate.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, Cloud Engineering, and Data Governance teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards.
• Innovation & Roadmap
• Evaluate emerging Confluent features and event streaming trends; recommend adoption strategies.
• Drive automation for provisioning, scaling, and patching using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
Must-Have
• 8+ years in enterprise data architecture or platform engineering roles.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, schema management (Avro/Protobuf), and stream processing.
• Expertise in security (TLS, SASL, RBAC), performance tuning, and observability for Kafka clusters.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka operations.
Must Have Skills:
✔ Apache Kafka✔ Confluent Platform ✔(Avro/Protobuf) ✔(TLS, SASL, RBAC) ✔ (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
📩 Apply today or share profiles at Hariharan@smartitframe.com
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States- Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.
Key Responsibilities:
• Platform Architecture & Design
• Define and evolve the enterprise Kafka architecture, including cluster sizing, partitioning strategies, replication, and high availability.
• Establish patterns for producers, consumers, and stream processing applications using Confluent components (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, kSQLDB).
• Design multi-region disaster recovery and failover strategies aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Platform Governance & Standards
• Implement naming conventions, topic lifecycle policies, and schema evolution standards.
• Define RBAC and security guardrails leveraging Confluent Control Center, ACLs, and encryption (TLS, SASL).
• Ensure compliance with internal governance and regulatory frameworks.
• Performance & Observability
• Set up monitoring and alerting for throughput, latency, consumer lag, and broker health using Confluent Control Center and integrated observability tools.
• Optimize performance for large-scale streaming workloads; tune configurations for reliability and cost efficiency.
• Integration & Enablement
• Architect connectors for core banking systems, cloud data lakes, and analytics platforms.
• Provide reusable patterns and onboarding guides for application teams; enable self-service provisioning where appropriate.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, Cloud Engineering, and Data Governance teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards.
• Innovation & Roadmap
• Evaluate emerging Confluent features and event streaming trends; recommend adoption strategies.
• Drive automation for provisioning, scaling, and patching using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
Must-Have
• 8+ years in enterprise data architecture or platform engineering roles.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, schema management (Avro/Protobuf), and stream processing.
• Expertise in security (TLS, SASL, RBAC), performance tuning, and observability for Kafka clusters.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka operations.
Must Have Skills:
✔ Apache Kafka✔ Confluent Platform ✔(Avro/Protobuf) ✔(TLS, SASL, RBAC) ✔ (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
📩 Apply today or share profiles at Hariharan@smartitframe.com
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Kafka Developer position is now open for candidates interested in the Remote Jobs sector. This role in Texas offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Remote Jobs is a plus.