Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer – Hybrid (Kubernetes)

Consult; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 186,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking a Kafka/DevOps engineer to own the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running on Kubernetes. You will ensure stability, scalability and observability across the Kafka ecosystem while driving automation and process improvements.

You will deploy and operate Kafka components, manage topics and connectors, and lead incident analysis with a focus on reliability. Hybrid work from Kraków is expected, 6 days a month.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Kafka experience with Apache and Confluent platforms.
• Experience administrating end-to-end Kafka platforms and topics.
• Strong Kubernetes operational skills for deploying and managing Kafka on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Manage Kafka clusters and ensure platform stability, scalability and observability.
• Deploy, scale, upgrade and troubleshoot Kafka components on Kubernetes.
• Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end, including topics and bindings.

Skills

Apache Kafka

Confluent Kafka

Kubernetes

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ZooKeeper/KRaft

Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Automation scripting

Performance tuning

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Consult is seeking a Kafka/DevOps engineer to own the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running on Kubernetes. You will ensure stability, scalability and observability across the Kafka ecosystem while driving automation and process improvements.

You will deploy and operate Kafka components, manage topics and connectors, and lead incident analysis with a focus on reliability. Hybrid work from Kraków is expected, 6 days a month.