Kafka DevOps Engineer

DESCRIPTIONS:

Continuous support, maintenance and improvement for multi-tenant Kafka platforms.

ROLE 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.
• Strong involvement in k8s platform development and delivery.

ROLE 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:

• IaC (Terraform).
• GitHub Actions.
• Argo CD.
• Confluent Kafka Platform (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect).
• Networking (connection troubleshooting, AWS security groups).
• Azure basic concepts.

WE OFFER:

• Company culture based on trust and respect.
• Open and friendly working environment.
• Real opportunity for further career and personal development.