Kafka Engineer (8-10 years exp) - Kraków (Hybrid 2 days Office /3 days Remote) - 12 month contract

Kafka Engineer (8-10 years exp) - Kraków (Hybrid 2 days Office /3 days Remote) - 12 month contract - Start ASAP

Next Ventures seeks an experienced Kafka Engineer to service its key client project in Krakow.

Role and responsibilities:
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control Center.
• Provide expertise and hands‑on experience working on Kafka Connect using schema registry in a very high‑volume.
• Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform – provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands‑on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands‑on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
• Create topics, set up redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, and configure appropriate alerts and create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
• As a Kafka SRE you will conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, document for reference and put into place proactive measures to enhance system reliability.
Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools and perform data‑related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
Conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, documenting for reference and initiating proactive measures to enhance system reliability.

Skills and 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
• Key Technologies
Messaging technologies –Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka
DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins
Automation – Ansible, Puppet or similar
Monitoring –Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana

For more info please call Matt on View phone number on next-ventures.com or email View email address on next-ventures.com