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Platform Engineer III

V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH Contractor
POSTED ON 4/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2026
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.

V-Soft Consulting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

For more information or to view all our open jobs, please visit www.vsoftconsulting.com or call (844) 425-8425.

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