Smart IT Frame LLC · 1 day ago
Kafka Developer
Chicago, IL
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expSmart IT Frame LLC is a company specializing in IT solutions, and they are seeking a Kafka Developer to design and implement enterprise Kafka architecture. The role involves establishing governance standards, optimizing performance for streaming workloads, and collaborating with various teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise standards.
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Hiring Manager
Karan Kumar S
Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
Evaluate emerging Confluent features and event streaming trends; recommend adoption strategies
Drive automation for provisioning, scaling, and patching using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud Kafka deployments
Knowledge of financial services compliance and governance requirements
Exposure to automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines for Kafka infrastructure
Company
Smart IT Frame LLC
Smart IT Frame is a leading NMSDC-certified staffing partner, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey.
501-1000 employees
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