Makati-based Kafka Platform Engineer: Automation & Reliability

TerraBarn Inc; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,004,000 - 1,786,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth

Global projects exposure

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

Citco in Makati City is seeking a Kafka Engineer to support and administer our Kafka Platform Service within IT Operations Middleware. The role focuses on maintaining a secure, scalable, and reliable event-streaming platform for enterprise applications.

You will manage production Kafka environments, implement connectors and security controls, and collaborate with application teams to onboard and integrate services. A strong background in Linux, CI/CD, and automation is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Manage and operate Apache Kafka clusters across multiple environments
• Implement and support enterprise event-streaming solutions
• Perform platform performance tuning and capacity planning
• Develop automation using Infrastructure as Code tools
• Support application teams with Kafka onboarding and integration
• Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka-related issues
• Maintain platform security, governance, and compliance standards
• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities
• Create and maintain operational documentation and runbooks

Skills

Apache Kafka

Kafka security

Linux administration

Networking

Agile environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

EFK Stack

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

MirrorMaker 2

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Rundeck

Job description

Citco in Makati City is seeking a Kafka Engineer to support and administer our Kafka Platform Service within IT Operations Middleware. The role focuses on maintaining a secure, scalable, and reliable event-streaming platform for enterprise applications.

You will manage production Kafka environments, implement connectors and security controls, and collaborate with application teams to onboard and integrate services. A strong background in Linux, CI/CD, and automation is essential.