Platform Reliability Engineer - Kafka & Automation

Fulcrum Digital Inc; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fulcrum Digital is seeking a Kafka Messaging / SRE Engineer to join our platform engineering team. You will own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms in production and apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance.

In this role, you will drive DevOps and automation initiatives, build and enhance automation with Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with application and platform teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience with Kafka and messaging systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions).
• Hands-on experience with SRE, DevOps practices and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms in production environments
• Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance
• Drive DevOps & automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual operations
• Build and enhance automation using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines
• Perform incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and operational readiness
• Collaborate closely with application and platform engineering teams
• Contribute to Java-based tooling and platform enhancements

Skills

Kafka

SRE

DevOps

Ansible

Scripting

CI/CD

Java

Linux

Monitoring

Incident response

Job description

Fulcrum Digital is seeking a Kafka Messaging / SRE Engineer to join our platform engineering team. You will own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms in production and apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance.

In this role, you will drive DevOps and automation initiatives, build and enhance automation with Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with application and platform teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems.