Senior DevOps Consultant (Kafka)
GFT Technologies SE
- Location
- Hybrid (Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship)
- Compensation
- PLN 135 - PLN 170/hr
- Employment
- Contract
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
GFT Technologies is a global digital transformation company specializing in AI-centric solutions for banking, insurance, and manufacturing. This role focuses on managing and optimizing Kafka clusters within a Kubernetes environment to ensure platform stability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Skills
Perks
- Hybrid Work
Full job details
Type of contract: B2B contract
Salary range: 135 - 170 PLN/H
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.
Your tasks
- Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
- Deploy and operate Kafka components on Kubernetes, including scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting
- Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end
- Provision and manage Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
- Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB and GCP Pub/Sub
- Manage Kafka Connect components, including workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
- Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure platform observability and resilience
- Automate operational and maintenance activities using scripting and automation tools
- Perform benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning to ensure scalable and efficient data streaming
- Lead root cause analysis for production incidents
- Document incident findings and implement preventative improvements to increase platform reliability
Requirements
- 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
- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month
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