Kafka & AMQ Integration & Operations Engineer

Kafka & AMQ Integration & Operations Engineer

Target Experience Level: Minimum 2+ years dedicated experience in Apache Kafka / Red Hat AMQ Streams

Target Profile: Event Streaming Engineer, Middleware Engineer, Data Platform Administrator

Role Overview

You will be dedicated Kafka / AMQ Specialist and will be supporting enterprise event-streaming and messaging infrastructure. This role focuses on hands-on KAFKA cluster operations, developer integration support, stream provisioning, topic management, and performance tuning across non-production and production environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Kafka & AMQ Operations: Oversee day-to-day administration, health, scaling, partition balancing, and maintenance of Apache Kafka and Red Hat AMQ (AMQ Streams/Broker) clusters.
• Developer Integration & Support: Actively support internal developer teams by creating and configuring topics, schemas, consumer groups, schemas registry, and ACL permissions. Guide developers on message serialization, consumer lag resolution, and integration patterns.
• Should be capable of Perform real-time troubleshooting, log analysis, and root cause analysis (RCA) on producer/consumer issues, network latency, partition skew, and message loss across Staging and Production environments.
• Work alongside deployment pipelines (Tekton, Jenkins, ArgoCD) to automate stream configuration deployments onto OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Maintain security configurations, including SASL/SSL authentication, encryption in transit, and secrets management for messaging interfaces on Linux and Azure platform environments.

Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Primary Requirement: Minimum 2+ years of direct hands-on experience in Kafka and Red Hat AMQ administration, topic creation, consumer group management, and developer support.
• Deep experience in debugging Kafka consumer lags, broker errors, and message routing failures in real-time.
• Good working knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes containerized deployments.
• Familiarity with Elastic Observability for Kafka metric monitoring (JMX metrics, Prometheus/Grafana integration).
• Strong Linux System fundamentals and operational scripting skills.
• Soft Skills: Clear technical communication skills, proactive issue ownership, fast learner, and ability to collaborate effectively with internal software developers.

Preferred Certification CCAAK, (preferred). : EX482 ( Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka) CCDAK from confluent,

Work Location: In person