Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka Specialist)
Core
Design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly available Apache Kafka clusters on AWS to serve as the integration backbone for Fugro's global geospatial data ecosystem.
Role type
Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka Specialist)
Builds
Event orchestration and integration services connecting cloud services and end-user applications within the Common Data Backbone (CDB).
Domain
Geospatial data / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISR, KRaft), AWS services (VPC, EC2, MSK, IAM), TLS/mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, Grafana, CloudWatch, Bash/Python scripting
Preferred skills
AWS MSK advanced features, Schema Registry (Protobuf), Databricks Structured Streaming, Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS SysOps/Architect Professional
Technologies
Apache Kafka, AWS (MSK, VPC, EC2, IAM, Secrets Manager), Terraform, Grafana, CloudWatch, Databricks, .NET, Protobuf
Responsibilities
Design and maintain secure Kafka clusters; perform capacity planning and performance tuning; automate infrastructure using Terraform and GitOps; implement observability and alerting; develop runbooks for incident response and disaster recovery; ensure compliance with security standards; collaborate with development teams on Kafka best practices; conduct resilience testing.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
