Middleware Engineer

Our Clients; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Clients in the Philippines seeks a Senior Kafka Cluster Administrator to deploy and operate production Kafka clusters, manage ecosystem tools, and drive infrastructure automation. The role collaborates with engineering teams to onboard producers and consumers, contributing to event-driven architectures.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of hands-on Kafka experience, a degree in IT or CS, and a preference for Confluent Kafka certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years hands-on professional experience administering Apache Kafka in production.
• CCAAK certification is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate Kafka production clusters.
• Manage Kafka ecosystem tools: Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker 2.
• Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform/Ansible.
• Ensure performance, monitoring, and security compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for onboarding producers and consumers.

Skills

Kafka admin

DevOps

Security governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Rundeck

Prometheus

Grafana

EFK

Schema Registry

Kafka Connect

MirrorMaker 2

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Cluster Administration & Infrastructure

• Cluster Management: 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).

Operations, Observability & Security

• Performance & Monitoring: Optimize cluster performance, conduct capacity planning, and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK stack) for alerts and metrics.
• Security & Governance: Enforce data governance standards and configure Kafka security protocols, including TLS, SASL-SCRAM, and fine-grained access control lists (ACLs).
• Incident Management: Drive root-cause resolution for platform incidents with minimal client impact and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for critical applications.
• Developer Onboarding: Partner with engineering teams to onboard new producers and consumers, contributing to the Event Catalog and Subscription API documentation.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Platform Tenure: 3+ years of hands-on professional experience administering Apache Kafka or enterprise event-streaming platforms in production.
• Certifications (Preferred): Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) is a strong advantage.

Technical Skills

• Kafka Ecosystem: Deep working knowledge of Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker 2, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• DevOps & OS: Solid Linux/Unix system administration, networking fundamentals, and IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible).
• CI/CD & Monitoring: Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, BitBucket, Rundeck) and centralized monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK).