Kafka Platform Engineer – Production Ops & Automation

PROSTAFF Schweiz GmbH; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PROSTAFF Schweiz GmbH in Zurich is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer / Operations Specialist to support a business-critical Data Integration Platform team.

The role focuses on running, monitoring and maintaining the enterprise Kafka platform, providing production support, incident resolution and DevOps-oriented improvements.

You will collaborate with partner teams, analyze logs and system dependencies, optimize performance and contribute to automation and platform stability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating Apache Kafka in enterprise production environments.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
• Familiarity with incident management, monitoring, and throughput optimization.

Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor and support the enterprise Kafka streaming platform.
• Ensure stability and availability of business-critical integration services.
• Troubleshoot incidents in production and perform root-cause analysis.
• Participate in platform maintenance, automation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Kafka platform administration

Linux/Unix administration

DevOps practices

Monitoring & incident response

Automation & SRE mindset

Tools

Apache Kafka

Job description

PROSTAFF Schweiz GmbH in Zurich is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer / Operations Specialist to support a business-critical Data Integration Platform team.

The role focuses on running, monitoring and maintaining the enterprise Kafka platform, providing production support, incident resolution and DevOps-oriented improvements.

You will collaborate with partner teams, analyze logs and system dependencies, optimize performance and contribute to automation and platform stability.