Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada • Posted March 12, 2026

Job Type: Contract

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Posted: March 12, 2026

Category: Computer Occupations

Application Deadline: April 21, 2026

Role Description

Role: Senior Kafka Platform Engineer


Location: Kitchener, Ontario---Hybrid​ Primary Skills: Digital : AKANA API Management Platform .
Kafka Platform Engineer – Job Description
Platform Engineering & Operations
Design, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters across on?premises, cloud, and Kubernetes environments.
Ensure platform high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and robust capacity planning.
Implement and support Kafka ecosystem components including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, KSQL/ksqlDB, and related tools.
Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and custom automation scripts.
Configure and maintain observability tooling for monitoring, alerting, and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, and other frameworks.
Perform performance tuning across partitions, replication factors, retention pol...
                

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