# Platform Engineer - Kafka & Integration Platforms

**Company:** [InventYOU AB](null/companies/6Rie6tUq5y8qvkYFycGX5v.md)
**Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced **Platform Engineer - Kafka & Integration Platforms** to build, operate, and continuously improve enterprise integration and messaging platforms used by multiple development teams.

The role has a strong focus on **Apache Kafka, Strimzi, HiveMQ, Kubernetes/AKS, platform automation, stability, scalability, security, and observability**. You will take end-to-end operational responsibility following a **“you build it – you run it”** approach, while enabling development teams through reliable platform capabilities and self-service tooling.

### **Key Responsibilities**

-   Design, deploy, and maintain **multi-cluster, multi-region Apache Kafka environments** using Strimzi on Kubernetes
-   Administer and maintain enterprise **HiveMQ MQTT brokers**
-   Manage Kafka, Strimzi, and HiveMQ upgrades, patching, and CVE remediation with minimal or zero application downtime
-   Develop and maintain custom **Kafka Connect Source/Sink connectors**
-   Manage Kafka topics, partitions, compaction, retention, and cluster resource allocation
-   Design scaling strategies and optimize Kubernetes resources for high-throughput messaging workloads
-   Design **high-availability and disaster recovery** solutions, including cross-region replication and automated failover
-   Manage **Schema Registries** using Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema
-   Implement Kafka security using **ACLs, SASL, OAuth/OIDC, mTLS, SSL, and RBAC**
-   Manage advanced ingress and traffic-routing capabilities for messaging platforms
-   Build observability and monitoring solutions using **Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Fluent Bit, and OpenTelemetry**
-   Configure proactive alerting for platform, Kubernetes, JVM, storage, and performance issues
-   Perform **Root Cause Analysis (RCA)** for platform incidents and implement preventive measures
-   Provide **Tier 3 support** for complex Kafka and integration issues
-   Support Java/Spring Boot development teams with Kafka Producer/Consumer configuration and best practices
-   Build and maintain reusable **GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines**
-   Use **Helm and Infrastructure as Code** to automate and standardize platform deployments
-   Support automated scaling using technologies such as **KEDA**
-   Develop self-service capabilities enabling teams to safely provision topics, schemas, and credentials
-   Handle incident, problem, and change management at platform level
-   Collaborate closely with Security, Architecture, and development teams

## Requirements

-   **4-6 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka**, including platform-level cluster management, performance, and security
-   Strong experience with **Strimzi, Kafka Connect API, and KRaft**
-   **4-6 years of experience with Java and Spring Boot**
-   Strong experience with **Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)**
-   Experience with **HiveMQ**
-   Experience with **PostgreSQL**
-   Strong Linux knowledge, including WSL
-   Experience with **GitHub Actions and ArgoCD**
-   Strong understanding of **CI/CD** using GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins
-   Experience with **Infrastructure as Code**, preferably Terraform or equivalent
-   Experience with **Helm**
-   Hands-on experience with **Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk**
-   Experience with **Fluent Bit or OpenTelemetry**
-   Good understanding of platform security, authentication, authorization, and access management
-   Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
-   Comfortable taking end-to-end operational responsibility
-   Fluent in **English**

### **Nice to Have**

-   Experience with **API Management (APIM) platforms**
-   Experience with **Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud**
-   Experience with cloud cost optimization
-   Experience working within an **integration department in a large enterprise environment**
-   Experience with KEDA and event-driven autoscaling
-   Knowledge of advanced Kafka governance and Schema Registry practices
-   **Swedish language skills**

### **You will be a great candidate for us if you**

-   Have deep hands-on expertise in Kafka and integration platform engineering
-   Enjoy taking ownership of platforms from design through production operations
-   Have a strong automation and **Infrastructure-as-Code mindset**
-   Are comfortable troubleshooting complex distributed systems
-   Focus on platform stability, scalability, security, and performance
-   Enjoy enabling development teams through reusable tooling and self-service capabilities
-   Have a collaborative and humble approach when working across engineering, security, and architecture teams

## Benefits

### **Why join inventYOU**

-   Work with modern **Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure, and cloud-native technologies**
-   Take ownership of large-scale enterprise integration platforms
-   Work on complex challenges involving messaging, automation, security, and distributed systems
-   Collaborate with experienced engineering, architecture, and security professionals
-   Continue developing your expertise in modern platform engineering and DevOps practices