Senior DevOps Engineer with Kafka

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join Sopra Steria Apps Services on a project developed for one our clients. European Commission DIGIT is the internal IT hosting services provider for the EC and other European Institutions. The DevOps Engineer will take ownership of the Kafka service within our client’s IT ecosystem. The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing, and maintaining Kafka infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance. This role requires deep expertise in Apache Kafka, strong automation skills, and experience managing distributed data streaming platforms in a complex enterprise environment.

Mission/activities:

• 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 procedures,

• contributing to the knowledge base.

Tech stack:

• DevOps

• SRE

• Apache Kafka

• Python/Bash scripting

• Cloud

• Terraform/Ansible

• Dynatrace, ELK, Splunk

• CI/CD

Must-have requirements:

• 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,

• 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,

• good communication skills,

• English B2/C1,

• being open to occasional business trips and visits in our office in Katowice,

• EU citizenship.

Nice to have requirements:

• An ITIL qualification,

• 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,

What we offer: 

BENEFITS ON UoP: referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, Luxmed, Medicover Sport, access to educational platforms 

DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (UoP and B2B): 3 certifications per year, conferences, Tech Lunches- meetings conducted by our specialists) 

The recruitment process for this particular position consists of 2 stages:

a short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max) 

one hour long interview on Teams (general and technical questions) with the team

If you find this offer interesting and you would like to learn more about the project, send us your up-dated CV in English containing the clause:

 „I agree to the processing by Sopra Steria Polska Sp. z o.o. my personal data contained in my CV for the recruitment process and further recruitment processes.”