Your new company
For our client from Cracow, we are looking for a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer.
Your new role
This role is responsible for the management and operational excellence of the Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment.
What you’ll do:
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control Centre.
• Provide expertise and hands-on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry at a very high volume.
• Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists, Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands-on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connectors, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands-on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
• Create topics, set up redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, configure appropriate alerts and create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups to help onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
• As a Kafka SRE, you will conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, document for reference and put into place proactive measures to enhance system reliability.
• Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools and perform data-related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, documenting for reference and initiating proactive measures to enhance system reliability.
What you'll need to succeed
• Must be able to communicate on a technical level with engineers and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Thorough understanding of Kafka's Architecture
• Familiar with cluster maintenance processes and implementing changes and recommended fixes to Kafka clusters and topics to protect production.
• Experience operating in an infrastructure as a code and automation first principles environment
Key Technologies
• Messaging technologies - Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka
• DevOps toolsets - GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins
• Automation - Ansible, Puppet or similar
• Monitoring -Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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