Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Streaming

GFT Technologies SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 177,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Kraków office

Medical benefits

Sport subsidy

Lunch subsidy

Life insurance

Online training & certifications

Social events

Job summary

GFT Poland is seeking a skilled Kafka platform engineer to manage and optimize Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and observability while driving automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes and end-to-end platform administration.

Qualifications

• Deep technical Kafka expertise across brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration for Kafka deployments.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Manage and operate Kafka clusters in Kubernetes.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead root cause analysis for production incidents and document improvements.
• Automate operational tasks with scripting and tooling.
• Configure and maintain Kafka topics, connectors, and role-bindings.
• Provide incident documentation and postmortem actions.

Skills

Kafka expertise

Root cause analysis

Observability

Scripting

Tools

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Confluent Kafka

ZooKeeper/KRaft

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

GFT Poland is seeking a skilled Kafka platform engineer to manage and optimize Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and observability while driving automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes and end-to-end platform administration.