Senior Data Streaming Engineer Vervic Inc. Woodlawn, MD Job Details Full-time $75 an hour 15 hours ago Qualifications DevSecOps Practices Performance tuning System troubleshooting Continuous Delivery (CD) implementation OAuth 2.0 Team leadership Software coding Application Architecture Design (Architecture design skill) System performance optimization Bitbucket TLS Java Microservices RBAC Bachelor's degree Application design Data access controls implementation Mentoring Software documentation Leading team collaboration initiatives Technical writing Vulnerability management Security architecture implementation Kafka DevOps automation Real-time data processing implementation Data performance optimization Maven Technical Proficiency Cross-functional communication
Full Job Description Title:
Senior Data Streaming Engineer Location:
Woodlawn, MD Onsite:
5
Days/Week Rate:
$75/hr C2
C 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