Kafka Devops Engineer
Core
Design, operate, and maintain high-availability Apache Kafka clusters on AWS to serve as the central event orchestration backbone for a global geospatial data ecosystem.
Role type
Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer
Builds
Secure, scalable, and reliable Apache Kafka clusters (via MSK or self-managed) on AWS
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) + Event Streaming (Apache Kafka)
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Apache Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISR, KRaft), AWS services (VPC, EC2, MSK, IAM, Secrets Manager), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, observability (Grafana, CloudWatch), scripting (Bash, Python), security protocols (TLS/mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, ACLs), disaster recovery planning
Preferred skills
Kafka certification
Technologies
Apache Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Grafana, CloudWatch, MSK
Responsibilities
Design and deploy secure, high-availability Kafka clusters; perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive scaling; automate infrastructure and configurations using Terraform and GitOps; implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards; develop runbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and rolling upgrades; ensure security compliance with ISO 27001 standards; optimize costs and operational maturity of the Kafka stack
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC