Kafka Operations Engineer for Secure Event-Driven Clusters

Create Synergies Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Create Synergies Inc. is seeking a Kafka Operations Engineer in Makati, Philippines, to administer, scale, and automate enterprise Kafka clusters.

This role partners with development and architecture teams to sustain a reliable, secure, event-driven platform within the IT Operations Middleware unit. You will deploy production clusters, manage ecosystem tools, and implement infrastructure as code, while ensuring performance, security, and on-call incident management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka in production.
• CCAAK certification is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Kafka Cluster Administration & Infrastructure: Deploy, configure, and operate Apache Kafka production clusters, including broker tuning, topic management, and ACL administration.
• Ecosystem Management: Administer key Kafka ecosystem tools, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and MirrorMaker 2.
• Infrastructure Automation: Build and maintain automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment scripts using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Performance & Monitoring: Optimize cluster performance, capacity planning, and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK).
• Security & Governance: Enforce data governance standards and configure Kafka security protocols, including TLS, SASL-SCRAM, and ACLs.
• Incident Management: Drive root-cause resolution for platform incidents with on-call rotations.
• Developer Onboarding: Onboard new producers and consumers, contributing to the Event Catalog and Subscription API documentation.

Skills

Kafka administration

On-call support

Observability

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Rundeck

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK Stack

Job description

Create Synergies Inc. is seeking a Kafka Operations Engineer in Makati, Philippines, to administer, scale, and automate enterprise Kafka clusters.

This role partners with development and architecture teams to sustain a reliable, secure, event-driven platform within the IT Operations Middleware unit. You will deploy production clusters, manage ecosystem tools, and implement infrastructure as code, while ensuring performance, security, and on-call incident management.