Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka)
Description
We are GFT Poland. WE KNOW how to tackle complex issues with innovative approach to deliver the highest value. Our reputation has been built around one simple rule: we do not overpromise, WE DELIVER. We deliver to our employees, clients and partners. WE GROW as you grow, so investing in you is our business strategy. Caring for each other is our priority. WE CARE who you are, what you need, how you feel. WE CARE to smile, have fun and develop as human beings.
Why Choose GFT?
- A culture of top performance
- Deep tech IT engineering & consulting
- 1200 skilled & top-class experts
- 77% of the team are regular/senior
- Products that contribute to a sustainable world
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Ambitious projects, trainings and tools you need to flourish
- Google Cloud Partner of the Year - for going above and beyond for customers
What will you do?
You will be responsible for the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, ensuring platform stability, scalability, performance and observability while supporting the automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.
We offer
- Hybrid work in our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month
- Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
- Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
- Online training and certifications
- Access to e-learning platform
- Social events
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Strong knowledge of Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Experience in end-to-end Kafka platform administration and operations
- Experience with Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
- Experience configuring and maintaining Kafka connectors
- Knowledge of Kafka Connect workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk
- Experience with scripting and automation of operational activities
- Experience with Kafka performance analysis, benchmarking and tuning
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production environments
Nice to have
- Experience with MQ integrations
- Experience with MongoDB integrations
- Experience with GCP Pub/Sub integrations
- Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and Confluence