Kafka SRE

Roles and RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. • Deploy and operate Kafka components on container platforms, with hands-on Kubernetes experience (e.g., scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting). • Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end, including provisioning of Topics and Role-bindings. • Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB, GCP Pub sub, as well as Connect components such as workers, tasks, converters and SMTs (transforms). • 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 findings and drive preventative improvements to enhance reliability. SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED • Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders. • Strong problem solving and analytical skills • Thorough understanding of the Kafka Architecture • Familiar with cluster maintenance processes and implementing changes and recommended fixes to Kafka clusters and topics to protect production. • Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles Environment Messaging technologies –Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins Nice to have: This role requires working in conjunction with a globally located team. There will be occasions where activity may need to align with another geographic location.