DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Kafka Administration & Operations: Deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain Kafka clusters in a high-availability production environment.

• Performance Optimization: Tune Kafka configurations, partitions, replication, and producers/consumers to ensure efficient message streaming.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate Kafka infrastructure deployment and management using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Monitoring & Incident Management: Implement robust monitoring solutions (e.g., Dynatrace) and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, latency issues, and failures.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure secure data transmission, access control, and compliance with security best practices (SSL/TLS, RBAC, Kerberos).

• CI/CD & Automation: Integrate Kafka with CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability.

• Capacity Planning & Scalability: Analyze workloads and plan for horizontal scaling, resource optimization, and failover strategies.

• Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to support Kafka-based applications and ensure seamless data flow.

• Training and technical support to end users and other stakeholders;

• Writing / Updating procedure:

• To Contribute to the knowledge base;

• Work together as a team;

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Kafka administration.

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (setup, tuning, and troubleshooting).

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).

• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka deployments.

• Familiarity with Kafka Connect, KSQL, Schema Registry, Zookeeper.

• Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK, Splunk).

• Understanding of networking, security, and access control for Kafka clusters.

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD).

• Ability to analyze logs, debug issues, and propose proactive improvements.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.An ITIL qualification is an asset;

• Strong communications skills (oral/written) to interact effectively and professionally with both internal and external customers;

• Ability to work in an international/multicultural environment;

• Ability to work both independently and with other team members.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Confluent Kafka or other managed Kafka solutions.

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and stream processing (Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams).

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) for Kafka networking.

• Certifications in Kafka, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms.