Kafka Lead - Local to Pittsburgh, PA

Kafka Lead - Local to Pittsburgh, PA

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Main location: United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

Alternate Location(s): United States, Texas, Dallas

United States, Alabama, Birmingham

United States, Arizona, Phoenix

United States, Ohio, Cleveland

Position ID: J0326-0602

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

This position is located in Pittsburgh, PA with work performed at our client site.

CGI is looking for a dynamic Platform Lead with expertise in Kafka and DevOps Engineering, and experience in a bank or any financial institution and significant experience engaging with Onshore stakeholders and leading an Offshore based Crew.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

. Lead and manage the Onshore Platform Operations Team, providing technical direction, workload oversight, and operational governance to ensure stable and efficient platform performance.

. Administer and operate Apache Kafka environments, including Confluent Cloud and on premises clusters, ensuring proper installation, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management of Kafka brokers, Kafka Connect, and related components.

. Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of platform resources.

. Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support automated application delivery, integration, and infrastructure deployment across multiple environments.

. Perform performance tuning and optimization of Kafka clusters, including managing partitions, replication factors, consumer lag, and ensuring low-latency, high-throughput data streaming operations.

. Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Logscale, ensuring proactive detection, alerting, and troubleshooting of platform issues.

. Ensure platform security and compliance, including implementation of data encryption, authorization controls, ACL management, and adherence to organizational and regulatory standards.

. Collaborate with engineering and development teams to define Kafka topic structures, schemas, SLAs, and best practices for producers and consumers across the data ecosystem.

. Support containerized application deployments by managing and operating container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes (including OpenShift environments).

. Build automation tools and scripts using Python to streamline operational workflows, reduce manual tasks, and improve efficiency across the platform.

. Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles-where applicable-to improve platform reliability, scalability, incident response, and overall operational excellence.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. Must have dedicated KAFKA Administration and Operations (should know Apache KAFKA architecture in-depth, KSQL, Confluent Cloud, Installation, configuration and management of KAFKA brokers, KAFKA Connect) experience

. 5+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, including Connect, Kafka Streams, Zookeeper, Schema Registry and managing Kafka on Confluent Cloud

. 5+ years in DevOps tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python and Java for automation. . 3+ years of experience in leading cross-border teams, such as onshore - offshore.

. 5+ years of experience in engaging directly with Client Stakeholders in understanding and planning work packages, especially around Kafka.

. At least 5 years of experience as a Team Lead, leading a team of professionals in India to get the work done

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $57,100.00 - $121,900.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

. Competitive compensation

. Comprehensive insurance options

. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan

. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time

. Paid parental leave

. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance

. Wellness and Well-being programs

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Skills:

• Apache Kafka

• DevOps

• Leadership

• Performance Tuning

• Python

What you can expect from us:

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You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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