Lead Kafka Platform Engineer
Location
IRVING, TX
Job Type
Full-time
Category
other-general
Posted
June 18, 2026
**About this role:**
Seeking a highly skilled Lead Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Confluent Kafka and OpenShift (OCP) to design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in distributed systems, automation, and enterprise platform engineering, with a proven ability to drive architecture decisions, optimize performance, and enable large-scale application adoption through standardized, self-service solutions
**In this role, you will:**
+ Lead complex initiatives to design and deliver Confluent Kafka platforms on OpenShift (OCP), enabling scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming solutions for enterprise applications.
+ Design, build, deploy, and maintain Kafka infrastructure on OCP using operator-based frameworks, supporting components such as brokers, KRaft controllers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Fink and Control Center.
+ Drive continuous improvemen...
Seeking a highly skilled Lead Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Confluent Kafka and OpenShift (OCP) to design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in distributed systems, automation, and enterprise platform engineering, with a proven ability to drive architecture decisions, optimize performance, and enable large-scale application adoption through standardized, self-service solutions
**In this role, you will:**
+ Lead complex initiatives to design and deliver Confluent Kafka platforms on OpenShift (OCP), enabling scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming solutions for enterprise applications.
+ Design, build, deploy, and maintain Kafka infrastructure on OCP using operator-based frameworks, supporting components such as brokers, KRaft controllers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Fink and Control Center.
+ Drive continuous improvemen...