About the CompanyAt Avaron, you get the security of permanent employment combined with the variety of working at different customers. We place specialists across everything from tech, IT and industry to project management and business support – and whatever the assignment, you have a consultant manager who is there for you and your development.About the RoleYou will help shape a shared integration platform used by multiple development teams in a large enterprise environment. The focus is on building and operating reliable messaging and integration capabilities where stability, automation, self-service, and end-to-end ownership are central.This role centers on Apache Kafka and HiveMQ in Kubernetes, with responsibility for platform reliability, security, scalability, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with architecture, security, and development teams, and the role is especially interesting if you enjoy combining deep platform engineering with real influence on how teams consume integration services.Job DescriptionYou design, deploy, and maintain multi-cluster, multi-region Apache Kafka environments in Kubernetes using Strimzi or similar, as well as enterprise HiveMQ brokers.You drive upgrades and patching for Kafka, Strimzi, and HiveMQ with a strong focus on stability and minimizing downtime.You develop and maintain custom Kafka Connectors to enable data movement between legacy systems and cloud environments.You define scaling strategies, node affinity rules, topology spread constraints, and persistent volume management for IOPS-intensive messaging workloads.You manage partition layouts, topic compaction, retention behavior, and cluster-wide resource allocation to support performance and scalability.You design high-availability and disaster recovery strate…

Platform Engineer