Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka)
GFT Technologies SE
- Location
- Hybrid (Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship)
- Compensation
- PLN 15k - PLN 24k/mo
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
GFT Technologies is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage and ensure the operational excellence of Kafka clusters within a Kubernetes environment. The role focuses on platform stability, scalability, and observability while automating operational processes for a global digital transformation company.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Life insurance
Perks
- Hybrid Work
- Sport subsidy
- Lunch subsidy
- Online training
- Certifications
- E-learning platform access
- Social events
Full job details
Type of contract: Employment contract
Salary range: 15900 - 24300 PLN gross
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
Your skills
- 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
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