Site Reliability Engineer - Kafka
Core
Keep critical banking platforms reliable, scalable, and secure by managing Kafka-based event streaming and production systems.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kafka specialist)
Builds
Highly available production systems, Kafka clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability infrastructure for banking platforms.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure / Event Streaming
Required skills
Kafka production support, SRE/DevOps, Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability, Scripting, Incident management
Preferred skills
Capacity planning, Performance tuning, Disaster recovery
Technologies
Kafka, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Python, Bash, PowerShell
Responsibilities
Run and monitor highly available production systems including Kafka clusters; Manage and troubleshoot Kafka clusters covering topics, partitions, consumer groups, throughput, and latency; Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; Lead incident response and root cause analysis; Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code and scripting; Build and improve CI/CD pipelines; Improve observability with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting; Work with development teams on resilient, production-ready design; Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.