Senior Cloud Engineer: Kafka on Kubernetes at Scale

Dynatrace; Wien; On-site; EUR 74,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Health insurance

Wellness days

Mental health support

Volunteer day

Regular team events

Job summary

Dynatrace is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage Kafka on Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Strimzi. You will own cluster lifecycle, manage topics and ACLs, and automate quality gates with CI/CD and GitOps.

The role emphasizes developer-facing Kubernetes work, Go/Bash scripting, Helm templating, and contributing to Golang-based operators while improving observability and AI-assisted tooling across the platform.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience operating Kafka in production.
• Solid understanding of Kafka internals and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Developer-oriented Kubernetes knowledge and scripting in Bash/Go.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and maintain Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi.
• Own the Kafka cluster lifecycle: upgrades, scaling, partition rebalancing.
• Manage topics, users, and ACLs declaratively with fleet-wide consistency.
• Build pre-release checks and automated quality gates for Kafka changes.
• Contribute to and debug Golang-based operators.
• Design Helm charts for Kafka and related platform services.
• Automate deployments with CI/CD and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Improve monitoring and observability for Kafka.

Skills

Kafka in production

Kafka internals

Kubernetes

Go / Bash scripting

Helm

CI/CD & GitOps (ArgoCD)

AI-assisted tooling

AWS / Azure / GCP

Strimzi

Kubernetes Operators

Tools

Strimzi Kafka Operator

Operator Framework

ArgoCD

Helm charts

Prometheus

Job description

Dynatrace is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage Kafka on Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Strimzi. You will own cluster lifecycle, manage topics and ACLs, and automate quality gates with CI/CD and GitOps.

The role emphasizes developer-facing Kubernetes work, Go/Bash scripting, Helm templating, and contributing to Golang-based operators while improving observability and AI-assisted tooling across the platform.