Senior Cloud Engineer: Kafka on Kubernetes

Dynatrace Austria GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 74,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynatrace Austria GmbH is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer (Kafka) to join the Platform Infrastructure team. You will run Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi across AWS, Azure, and GCP, manage cluster lifecycles, and contribute to operator code.

The role emphasizes developer-focused Kubernetes work, automation, and observability improvements. You will collaborate with platform and product teams to deliver scalable, observable event streaming for the Dynatrace platform, with hybrid work in Vienna

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience operating Kafka in production.
• Solid understanding of Kafka internals and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Developer-oriented Kubernetes knowledge (less cluster ops, more app/service integration).
• Scripting/programming in Bash and Go (or another higher-level language).
• Helm proficiency - creating and templating charts.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
• Experience using AI-assisted developer tooling in daily engineering work.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least one).
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes Operators principles and willingness to contribute to Golang based Operators.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and maintain Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Own the Kafka cluster lifecycle: version upgrades, scaling, partition rebalancing, and capacity planning.
• Manage topics, users, and ACLs declaratively and keep configuration consistent across the fleet.
• Build pre-release checks and automated quality gates for Kafka changes.
• Contribute to and debug existing Golang-based operators.
• Design and template Helm charts for Kafka and related services.
• Automate deployments using CI/CD and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to provide reliable event streaming.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents for Kafka and infra services.
• Use AI-assisted developer tooling and AIOps to reduce toil and speed up troubleshooting.
• Improve monitoring and observability for Kafka (broker health, lag, replication).

Skills

Kafka in production

Kafka internals

Kubernetes

Bash

Go

Helm

CI/CD

ArgoCD

AI-assisted tooling

Cloud providers

Kubernetes Operators

Tools

Strimzi

Helm

Operator Framework

ArgoCD

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Dynatrace Austria GmbH is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer (Kafka) to join the Platform Infrastructure team. You will run Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi across AWS, Azure, and GCP, manage cluster lifecycles, and contribute to operator code.

The role emphasizes developer-focused Kubernetes work, automation, and observability improvements. You will collaborate with platform and product teams to deliver scalable, observable event streaming for the Dynatrace platform, with hybrid work in Vienna