Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

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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 Center. 
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in 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 connector, 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, setup redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, and configure appropriate alerts and create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping 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 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
• Thorough understanding of the Kafka 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 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 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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