Public Cloud - Enterprise Architect & Architecture Engineer - #2184374

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer / Enterprise Architect with strong expertise in designing, building, migrating and managing enterprise-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE.

The candidate must have experience in production-grade Kafka architecture, Kubernetes, multi-region resilience, security, automation and SRE practices within regulated or mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and manage enterprise Kafka/Confluent platforms on GCP/GKE.
• Implement Kafka clusters, CFK, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and KRaft.
• Design multi-zone/multi-region architecture, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Implement Kafka security, multi-tenancy, IAM/RBAC, TLS/mTLS and Vault integration.
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Helm and CI/CD.
• Implement Conduktor Gateway or equivalent Kafka protocol gateway solutions.
• Drive monitoring, observability, performance tuning and SRE practices.
• Lead Kafka migrations, production support and major incident management.
• Enable developer self-service through IDP/Backstage and Golden Paths.

Mandatory Skills

• Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform – Architecture & Production Operations
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and GKE
• Kubernetes, Stateful Workloads and Persistent Storage
• Kafka Security and Multi-tenancy
• Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and Scripting
• Multi-region Resilience and Disaster Recovery
• SRE, Observability and On-call Operations
• End-to-end Platform Design, Build and Run experience