Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer (Kafka & Private Cloud)

Job Title: Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer (Kafka & Private Cloud)

Location: Minneapolis, MN (3 days hybrid)(local only)

Duration: Long term contract

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Pega Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in Pega platform deployment and administration on Private Cloud environments. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in externalizing Pega services such as Kafka and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, containerizing Pega applications, and deploying solutions on AWS-based private cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support Pega Platform infrastructure in Private Cloud environments.
• Configure and manage Pega externalized services including:
• Apache Kafka
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Deploy and administer containerized Pega applications using:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Amazon EKS
• Helm
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Configure and manage highly available Kafka environments including:
• Topic management
• Partitioning and replication
• Security (SSL/TLS, SASL, IAM, ACLs)
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Manage OpenSearch/Elasticsearch clusters, indexing, retention, and search optimization.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Support production environments, incident management, performance tuning, and disaster recovery activities.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to deliver scalable enterprise solutions.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Pega Infrastructure/Cloud experience.
• Strong knowledge of Pega deployment and administration on Private Cloud.
• Experience externalizing Pega services such as Kafka and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Apache Kafka / Amazon MSK
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• AWS Cloud Services
• Docker
• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
• Experience with Linux administration and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, certificates, and access controls.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Pega Containerization.
• Experience deploying Pega on Kubernetes-based platforms.
• AWS certifications.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and enterprise security practices.

Technical Skills

Pega: Pega Platform, Pega Private Cloud, Pega Containerization

Cloud: AWS, EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch

Messaging: Kafka, Amazon MSK, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry

Search: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Kibana/OpenSearch Dashboards

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch