Lead Kafka Engineer

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This role maps to a Specialist Engineering profile where knowledge of engineering and architecture combine to build strategies and roadmaps to align to our customers.  The individual needs to be confident in understanding the general trends of the technologies in scope, how they are used by our customers, and anticipating how they need to evolve whilst meeting the HSBC architecture standards.

The role may additionally require developing POCs to test out theories, developing a strategy or simply to perform a show and tell to others.  The expectation is that the Engineering Architect is self- sufficient and competent to design and spec their architecture without dependency on the core engineering teams.  The individual may have evolved from an Engineering background and is now focused on the technology and architecture principals.

What you’ll do

• Work alongside product owners, technical leads and customers to strategize 3–5-year plans for event driven messaging and streaming software.
• Produce and maintain product and platform architecture in line and in collaboration with the central architecture governance functions and implement patterns that provide customers with robust deployment options to match HSBC service tiering.
• Ensure that platform and product architectures remain cost effective – this main involve vendor and procurement interaction
• Standing up and administer Kafka clusters operating on bare-metal GKE Kubernetes on-Prem.
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kraft, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control Center.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume and provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations, topic management etc.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API. and involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage and participate in work planning and estimation to ensure optimum performance, high availability, and stability of solutions.
• Implementing an observability pane that provides SRE visibility for the platform in line with the Banks observability strategy and ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles environment using industry standard tools – Jenkins, ansible, etc
• Understand the software development lifecycle process, specifically the standard engineering toolsets available to design and develop software.
• Key technologies:  
• Messaging technologies –Kafka ( opensource & commercial distributions ) 
• DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins
• Automation – Ansible
• Monitoring –Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, DataDog

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• Flexible working hours 
• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test 
• Telephone screen 
• Job interview with the hiring manager

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