Kafka Flink Architect

Job Title: Kafka Flink Architect

Location: Bolingbrook, IL

Mandatory skill: Confluent Kafka, Advanced Knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink

Job Description:
•    Extensive experience architecting, implementing, and administering Confluent Cloud Kafka platform in production environments.
•    Advanced knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink for real-time stream processing/analytics.
•    Proven proficiency in Kafka Connectors—from configuration to end-to-end integration in cloud environments.
•    Strong background in platform governance: schema registry, RBAC, audit logging, retention, and compliance.
•    Deep expertise with Terraform and the Confluent Terraform provider; Infrastructure-as-Code methodology and automation.
•    Practical experience designing and managing Harness CI/CD pipelines or other similar tools.
•    Advanced knowledge of GCP networking, including Private Service Connect (PSC), DNS, Firewalls and enterprise security.
•    Track record in implementing cloud-native monitoring and observability solutions; troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
•    Thorough experience with Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) strategies, backup/restore, and multi-region design.
•    Practical experience with cost optimization, resource monitoring, and right-sizing in Confluent Cloud.
•    Strong abilities in schema management, version compatibility, and data governance.
•    Demonstrated capability in capacity planning, partitioning, and scaling streaming architectures.
•    Experienced in Agile/DevOps methodologies.
•    Experience providing hands-on production support for mission-critical streaming platforms.

Experience in working with an offshore/on-site model. The position requires gathering requirements on-site, creating detailed design documents and coordinating with offshore for the development/delivery.