About the role

What will you do at Vervic?

Title: Senior Data Streaming Engineer

Location: Woodlawn, MD

Onsite: 5 Days/Week

Rate: $75/hr C2C

Interview: In-Person

Key

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior or advisory engineering roles
5+ years of experience in enterprise-scale streaming or secure delivery environments
Expert-level proficiency with Kafka, Flink, Java, Avro, and Confluent Schema Registry
Strong experience defining enterprise streaming patterns, reference architectures, standards, and reusable solutions
Experience with Kafka Streams or similar stateful streaming frameworks
Strong experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps practices
Experience designing secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, and Nexus
Experience with enterprise vulnerability management and secure coding practices
Experience with POAM-aligned remediation workflows
Hands-on experience designing secure microservices
Experience with Kafka security configurations including SSL/mTLS and SASL/OAUTHBEARER
Strong understanding of Kafka internals including brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ISR, retention, ACLs, RBAC, and cluster health
Experience troubleshooting consumer lag, serialization failures, state-store issues, rebalancing, replication delays, and performance bottlenecks
Ability to create enterprise documentation, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
Strong technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills
Preferred Experience:
Experience working within a Center of Excellence, architecture council, or multi-team governance organization
Federal government or regulated-environment experience
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
Experience with Black Duck, SonarQube, Fortify, or similar security platforms
Confluent Platform RBAC and enterprise Kafka security
Large-scale streaming workloads and streaming architecture
Schema evolution, state management, fault tolerance, and partitioning strategies
Building shared libraries, starter templates, and reusable streaming components
Advanced distributed-system debugging and production incident triage
The role requires a senior technical leader who can guide application and platform teams in adopting standardized patterns for Kafka, Flink, CI/CD security, schema governance, microservices, and secure streaming delivery. Senior Data Streaming Engineer
EOE

Which skills does this role require?

JavaAvroConfluent Schema RegistryDevSecOpsJenkinsMavenBitbucketNexusSSL/mTLSSASL/OAUTHBEARERACLsDistributed SystemsVulnerability ManagementSecure CodingPOAMTechnical Leadership

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