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# Data Streaming Engineer

- **Company:** Metalight Solutions Inc
- **Location:** Woodlawn, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Serialization, Software Debugging, Fault Tolerance, Apache Maven, Cisco Nexus Switches, OpenShift, Role-Based Access Control, Fortify (Software), Secure Coding, SonarQube, Data Streaming, Software Vulnerability Management, Transport Layer Security, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Avro, Apache Kafka, Bitbucket, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins, Confluent, Microservices
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/98982c69-f542-4705-80a7-7b07bfa7e734

## About the Role

* 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.