Kafka Engineer-Expert- Austin,Tx

Job Title:- Kafka Engineer-Expert

Location:- Onsite 4 days/week in Austin, TX

Duration:- 6 Month

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TOP 3 MUST HAVE SKILLS:

Experience with Confluent Kafka Platform

Experience with both On-Prem and Cloud

Required Experience & Skills

10+ years of experience in distributed systems, messaging, and enterprise platform engineering.

Extensive hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka Platform (on prem and cloud).

Strong background in Linux/Unix environments, networking, OS performance, and security.

Proven experience with automation, DevOps, and operational tooling.

Experience leveraging AI powered tools to accelerate development and improve team productivity and efficiency

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Strong organizational, relationship management, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Confluent Kafka and/or Cloud certifications.

Prior experience supporting large scale, regulated enterprise environments.

Must have experience leveraging AI powered tools and building AI driven agents as it relates to:

Design and implement secure Kafka architectures, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and network isolation.

Define and support high availability, disaster recovery, and data replication strategies.

Ensure alignment with enterprise security, compliance, and governance standards.

Data Streaming & Integration

Advise on data ingestion, event streaming, batch and stream processing architectures.

Provide guidance on data modeling and serialization standards (Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema).

Support enterprise integration use cases and resolve complex Kafka related integration challenges.

AI Development

Design and build AI agents, custom skills, or equivalent frameworks to automate engineering and operational workflows at scale

Leverage AI-powered tools (e.g., Copilot, AI agents) to accelerate development, automate testing, improve code quality, and enable intelligent SDLC workflows aligned to AI-DLC vision.

Design agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration patterns to solve complex distributed systems, integration, and operational challenges

Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools, including advanced prompt engineering and workflow integration to accelerate engineering

Proven ability to leverage AI-assisted development (e.g., Copilot, code generation) and build AI-driven agents/workflows to improve team productivity and engineering efficiency

Automation & DevOps Enablement

Drive automation first operations using Python, Ansible, and scripting.

Build and maintain self service operational tools to reduce day to day support overhead.

Integrate Kafka platform operations with DevOps and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef).

Incident Management & Problem Resolution

Lead deep dive investigations into complex production issues and outages.

Perform root cause analysis, document findings, and drive remediation to closure.

Operate effectively in high pressure outage and incident management scenarios.

Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement

Act as a trusted technical advisor to Schwab engineering, operations, and leadership teams.

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.

Demonstrate strong customer focus, ownership, and onshore engagement.

Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams and vendors.

Navya Gupta Sr. IT Technical Recruiter

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