Kafka Operations & Observability Engineer

PM Consulting; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PM Consulting is seeking a Kafka Operations Engineer for its client in Makati, Philippines. The role focuses on administering, scaling, and automating enterprise-grade Apache Kafka clusters within the IT Operations Middleware unit.

Responsibilities include cluster and ecosystem management, automation using Terraform/Ansible, and ensuring security, observability, and incident response with a 24/7 on-call rotation. Strong experience with Kafka tools and DevOps is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka in production.
• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate Apache Kafka production clusters, including broker tuning, topic management, and ACL administration.
• Administer key Kafka ecosystem tools: Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and MirrorMaker 2.
• Build and maintain automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment scripts using Terraform and Ansible.
• Optimize cluster performance, capacity planning, and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK) for alerts and metrics.
• Enforce data governance standards and configure Kafka security protocols (TLS, SASL-SCRAM, fine-grained ACLs).
• Drive root-cause resolution for platform incidents with 24/7 on-call rotation for critical apps.
• Onboard new producers and consumers, contribute to the Event Catalog and Subscription API documentation.

Skills

Event-driven design

Incident management

On-call rotation

Dev collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Schema Registry

Kafka Connect

MirrorMaker 2

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Rundeck

Prometheus

Grafana

EFK Stack

Job description

PM Consulting is seeking a Kafka Operations Engineer for its client in Makati, Philippines. The role focuses on administering, scaling, and automating enterprise-grade Apache Kafka clusters within the IT Operations Middleware unit.

Responsibilities include cluster and ecosystem management, automation using Terraform/Ansible, and ensuring security, observability, and incident response with a 24/7 on-call rotation. Strong experience with Kafka tools and DevOps is required.