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.
What You Bring
- 4–6 years of experience with Apache Kafka, Strimzi, Kafka Connect API, and KRaft.
- 4–6 years of experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Strong experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Linux, including WSL.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and CI/CD automation.
- Knowledge of Splunk, Fluent Bit, and Helm.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform.
- Strong understanding of Kafka platform administration, performance, and security.
- Experience with HiveMQ or MQTT brokers.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a humble attitude, and comfort with operational responsibility.
- Good English communication skills.
Meritorious
- Experience with API Management (APIM) platforms.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation.
- Experience working in an integration department within a large enterprise.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with Kubernetes-based platform automation and event-driven autoscaling.