Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Kafka, Spark & Kubernetes

Telesat; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global satellite operator in Ottawa is searching for a Kafka Expert to enhance their data platform team. The successful candidate will design and optimize Kafka solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience with Apache Kafka, Linux systems, and Kubernetes. Join a team committed to engineering excellence and innovative broadband solutions.

Benefits

Equal opportunity employer

Candidate accommodations provided

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Apache Kafka in production.
• Expertise in Linux (Red Hat and Debian) systems.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Apache Kafka clusters across environments.
• Optimize Kafka for high-throughput data pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams on Kafka use cases.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for Kafka systems.

Skills

Kafka administration

Linux system administration

Kubernetes

Scripting (Bash, Python)

CI/CD practices

Apache Spark

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Helm

Job description

A global satellite operator in Ottawa is searching for a Kafka Expert to enhance their data platform team. The successful candidate will design and optimize Kafka solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience with Apache Kafka, Linux systems, and Kubernetes. Join a team committed to engineering excellence and innovative broadband solutions.