This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Kafka Engineer with IRS MBI Clearance based in Portugal.

This role offers the opportunity to support critical, large-scale messaging and event streaming platforms within a secure, mission-driven environment.
You will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing Apache Kafka infrastructure that enables reliable data exchange across enterprise applications.
Working closely with development and infrastructure teams, you will ensure high availability, performance, and operational excellence across production environments.
The position combines hands-on platform engineering, system administration, performance tuning, and incident resolution.
You will contribute to the continuous improvement of cloud and messaging infrastructure while adhering to strict security and change management standards.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Kafka professional who thrives in complex technical environments and enjoys solving infrastructure challenges.

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain Apache Kafka environments to support reliable messaging and event streaming solutions.
• Create, configure, and manage Kafka topics, producers, consumers, connectors, and related platform components.
• Monitor Kafka clusters, identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot production issues, and implement timely resolutions.
• Perform system upgrades, configuration changes, capacity planning, and performance tuning to ensure platform stability and scalability.
• Collaborate with software developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to support application integration and event-driven architectures.
• Implement operational best practices for Kafka administration, monitoring, logging, and system reliability.
• Ensure all platform activities comply with security requirements, operational procedures, and change management processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance platform performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience working with Apache Kafka in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Kafka administration, configuration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed messaging and event streaming platforms.
• Proficiency with Linux system administration and experience using Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex production issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional technical teams.
• Active IRS MBI Clearance is required.
• Previous experience supporting IRS or other federal government projects is considered an advantage.

Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunity.
• Opportunity to contribute to high-impact government and public sector technology initiatives.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale Kafka infrastructure and event-driven architecture.
• Collaborative environment working alongside experienced engineering and infrastructure professionals.
• Opportunity to strengthen expertise in distributed systems, messaging platforms, and production operations.
• Long-term role supporting mission-critical technology environments.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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