Kafka Platform Engineer

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Job Location: Atlanta, GA
Job Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters in production and non-production environments.

• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of the Kafka platform. Develop automation for provisioning, monitoring, and maintaining Kafka infrastructure. Collaborate with application teams to onboard them to Kafka and support their use cases. Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, and encryption. Monitor system health and performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and connectors. Maintain and enhance Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams infrastructure. Participate in capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies.

Required Skills
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

5+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles.

2+ years of hands-on experience managing Kafka in production environments.

Strong understanding of Kafka internals, including partitions, replication, ISR, and retention policies.

Experience with Kafka ecosystem tools (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, etc.).

Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform).

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Life at Capgemini
Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

Flexible work

Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs

Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan

Paid time off and paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation

Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring

Mentoring, coaching and learning programs

Employee Resource Groups nd Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodations du

Disaster Relief

Disclaimer
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