Kafka Platform Engineer

<span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Kafka Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.</span></span><br> <h1 style="margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:15pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Kafka Platform Engineer</span></span></h1><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Job Title:</b> Kafka Platform Engineer</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> 100% Remote (Continental United States)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Position Type:</b> In-house Bright Vision Technologies SOW engagement (no third-party client or vendor)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Experience:</b> 5+ years<br><strong>Salary: 100K - 150K</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Sponsorship:</b> No new H1B sponsorship available. H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Employment Type:</b> Full-time, direct W2 with Bright Vision Technologies (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party)</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Engagement:</b> Long-term, multi-year, aligned to the Bright Vision SOW delivery roadmap</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Compensation:</b> Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Employment Terms & Visa Policy</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>This is a 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>This role is part of Bright Vision Technologies’ in-house Statement of Work (SOW) engagement.</b> The client, end customer, and employer for this position is Bright Vision Technologies — there is no third-party client, vendor, or implementation partner involved.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We do not engage in C2C, 1099, or third-party arrangements for this role.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>BUT STRICTLY NO C2C/1099/3RD PARTY COMPANIES. ALL OUR ROLES ARE W2 AND NO 3RD PARTY BROKERING PLEASE.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Candidates must be willing to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Bright Vision Technologies and contribute to our in-house SOW deliverables.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">No new H1B sponsorship is available for this role.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b>However, candidates who are currently on a valid H1B visa and require a transfer are welcome to apply. We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.</b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">For every role, a technical coding assessment is mandatory. Please apply only if you are confident in your technical abilities and hands-on experience.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Job Summary</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We are seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. In this role you will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with application teams to deliver a reliable, performant, and developer-friendly streaming platform. In this role you will work closely with cross-functional partners — product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders — to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions, and will be expected to raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of more junior engineers. The successful candidate brings strong engineering discipline, a clear communication style, and a track record of shipping meaningful work that holds up well in production.</span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform clusters across on-prem and cloud environments.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Design partitioning, replication, and topic strategies that balance throughput, durability, and operational simplicity.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Implement strong security on Kafka clusters using SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and integration with corporate IdPs.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Operate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams in production.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Build and operate Kafka Connect pipelines integrating sources and sinks across enterprise systems.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Design HA/DR strategies for Kafka, including MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, and multi-region active-active patterns.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Build CI/CD pipelines for Kafka topic, ACL, and connector configurations using GitOps patterns.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Implement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Confluent Control Center.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Drive Kafka cost and capacity optimization through right-sizing and storage tiering.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Onboard application teams to Kafka with clear patterns, templates, and best practices.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Lead incident response and post-incident reviews for streaming workloads, applying disciplined engineering practices and partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure outcomes are durable, well-documented, and aligned with broader team and platform standards.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design review, pair programming, and structured knowledge sharing, helping the broader team grow in technical maturity and confidence over time.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Maintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Continuously evaluate emerging streaming technologies (Pulsar, Redpanda, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs).</span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Required Qualifications</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Deep, hands-on knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs, consumer groups).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience with Kafka security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Experience with HA/DR strategies for Kafka.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Working knowledge of observability tooling for Kafka.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.</span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">Preferred Qualifications</span></b></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:4px;"><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Confluent Certified Administrator or Developer credentials.</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Experience operating Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi, Confluent Operator).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Exposure to managed Kafka services (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs Kafka API).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Familiarity with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).</span></span></li><li style="margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:8px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Experience with data governance and lineage for streaming data.</span></span></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:13pt;">How to Apply</span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Would you like to know more about this opportunity?</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">For immediate consideration, please send your resume to hilda@bvteck.com<br>Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We recognize that our people are our strength, and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.</span></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Position offered by “No Fee Agency.”</span></span><br> <p>Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement</p> <p>Bright 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.</p> <p>BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.</p>

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