Senior DevOps Consultant (Kafka)

Type of contract: B2B contract 

Salary range: 135 - 170 PLN/H

What will you do?

You will be responsible for the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, ensuring platform stability, scalability, performance and observability while supporting the automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

Your tasks

• Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
• Deploy and operate Kafka components on Kubernetes, including scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting
• Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end
• Provision and manage Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
• Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB and GCP Pub/Sub
• Manage Kafka Connect components, including workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
• 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 incident findings and implement preventative improvements to increase platform reliability

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
• Strong knowledge of Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience in end-to-end Kafka platform administration and operations
• Experience with Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
• Experience configuring and maintaining Kafka connectors
• Knowledge of Kafka Connect workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk
• Experience with scripting and automation of operational activities
• Experience with Kafka performance analysis, benchmarking and tuning
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production environments
• Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month

Nice to have

• Experience with MQ integrations
• Experience with MongoDB integrations
• Experience with GCP Pub/Sub integrations
• Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and Confluence