Platform Engineer III

Platform Engineer III (Onsite)
Primary Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a
Platform Engineer III
for our premier client in
Cincinnati, Ohio
.
Must Have
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »

• AWS.
• Kafka.
• Terraform.

What You’ll Do
Job Responsibilities:
Kafka Platform Engineer (AWS, MSK, Terraform, DevOps)

• Seeking a hands-on Kafka Platform Engineer to support and scale enterprise event-driven architecture running on Amazon MSK within AWS.
• This role will own Kafka infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence across a hybrid cloud ecosystem.

Kafka Platform Ownership

• Operate and support Amazon MSK in production.
• Design and manage multi-AZ / multi-region Kafka architectures for high availability.
• Topic design, partitioning strategy, retention tuning, and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot consumer lag, rebalancing, broker performance, and throughput bottlenecks.
• Manage Schema Registry and enforce schema governance.

Kafka Connect & Integration

• Deploy and manage Kafka Connect clusters.
• Configure and troubleshoot source/sink connectors.
• Support real-time integrations into Snowflake and other enterprise systems.

Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Advanced)

• Build and maintain Terraform modules for MSK, networking, IAM, security groups, and supporting AWS services.
• Deep understanding of Terraform lifecycle meta-arguments, state management, modules, and remote backends.
• Automate environment provisioning across dev, test, and prod.

AWS & DevOps

• Strong understanding of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM).
• Experience supporting production workloads in AWS.
• CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure and Kafka deployments.
• Monitoring and observability (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or similar).

Security & Governance

• Kafka ACLs, IAM integration, encryption, secrets management.
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments.

Interested?
Qualified candidates should send their resumes to
zkhan@vsoftconsulting.com
V-Soft Consulting Group is recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America, V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India, Canada and the U.S. V-Soft is known as an agile, innovative technology services company holding several awards and distinctions and has a wide variety of partnerships across diverse technology stacks.
As a valued V-Soft Consultant, you’re eligible for full benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), a 401(k) plan, competitive compensation and more. V-Soft is partnered with numerous Fortune 500 companies, exceptionally positioned to advance your career growth.
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