Kafka DevOps Engineer (Replacement employment contract)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintenance of already existing multi-tenant and exclusive Kafka clusters,

• Continuous improvements for existing CI/CD pipelines,

• Deployment of new Kafka environments in AWS, Azure and on-prem (vm/bare-metal),

• Opportunity to make real impact on Kafka platform solution and design,

• Maintenance and improvements of current and future automation used for provisioning, deployments and monitoring of the system,

• Exploring new possibilities and delivering new features to optimize the Kafka platform,

• Delivering automation for new Kafka Connect connectors,

• Migrate/deploy platform changes,

• Working with platform customers to help with onboarding into the platform or solve their problems and questions,

• Serving customer requests in regards to Kafka topics (topology) changes using automation,

• Round robin on-call support,

• Strong involvement in k8s platform development and delivery.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ansible,

• Understanding of distributed version control systems like Git,

• Experience with one of the following languages: Python/Java/Go,

• Basics of Apache Kafka,

• Basics of containerization and Kubernetes,

• Basics of AWS (EC2, VPC, Route53, RDS),

• Linux (Red Hat family) - server admin level, bash scripting,

• Monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana/Alert Manager, or similar,

• Proactive approach in day to day platform development,

• Good communication skills,

• Good command of English.

NICE TO HAVE (OPTIONAL):

• IaC (Terraform),

• GitHub Actions,

• Argo CD,

• Confluent Kafka Platform (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect),

• Networking (connection troubleshooting, AWS security groups),

• Jenkins or other server knowledge,

• Linux containers,

• Confluent Kafka Platform (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect),

• Azure basic concepts.

WE OFEER:

• Replacement employment contract

• Company culture based on trust and respect,

• Open and friendly working environment,

• Real opportunity for further career and personal development,

• Possibility to work from home – 100%.