IT Kafka Engineer (f/m/d)

Your area of work:

We are looking for a Kafka Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing large scale distributed real-time data streams. As Kafka Engineer, you will be responsible for managing Kafka clusters in a high available and secured environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Setup and maintenance of High available Kafka clusters for all the different environments (from development to production) – running on OpenShift Clusters on-premise as well as in the Cloud (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
• Design, development, test and implement the Kafka as a Service offering to support the different development team
• Design/documentation/knowledge transfer on GitOps operating models for the Kafka infrastructure
• Support and investigation of Kafka infrastructure/security/application  setup issues in all environments (dev/test/prod)
• Design/development/deployment of automated solutions on the Kubernetes/OpenShift platform

Your profile:

• You have successfully completed your university degree in computer science or have relevant work experience related to IT container technology
• Minimum 1y of work experience with Kafka clusters
• You should have created topics, brokers, producers, consumers in a multi node cluster either with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka
• Kafka knowledge / experience from platform administration view
• You should have used Schema registry, KSQL, Kafka Streams and Kafka REST
• Kubernetes background (ArgoCD, Tekton, Helm, Terraform, Service Mesh, Openshift knowledge are a plus)
• Linux/ Bash scripting, Basic Network background, SSL/TLS certificate management
• Collaboration through version control software (GitHub is a plus)
• At least one Cloud provider (Azure, GCP, AWS) background
• Independent work method, high commitment to delivery, high self-responsibility & ownership, communication and analytical capabilities
• Willingness to learn, open for new technologies and new IT trends
• Ability to work in a multi-national team in multi-disciplinary team
• Proficiency in written and spoken English