Senior Platform Engineer: GCP, Kafka & Data Platform

GeekSoft Consulting; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swedish benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

GeekSoft Consulting in Stockholm, Sweden seeks a senior IT specialist to design, build and continuously improve the client's online platform, ensuring scalability and reliability.

You will lead with deep expertise in data engineering, cloud platforms, and CI/CD, collaborating across teams. Fluent English is essential; Swedish is a plus. This fixed-term engagement offers an international, growth-oriented environment and opportunities to shape modern cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience.
• 4-6 years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Strimzi, Kafka Connect API, and KRaft.
• 4-6 years of experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jinja SQL and dbt.
• Expertise in GCP, particularly BigQuery and Cloud Functions, with strong Python skills.
• Solid knowledge of data warehousing and data modeling, including Kimball methodology.
• Experience with GitHub CI/CD and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Help design, build and continuously improve the clients online platform.
• Research, suggest and implement new technology solutions following best practices/standards.
• Take responsibility for the resiliency and availability of different products.
• Be a productive member of the team.

Skills

10+ years IT experience

English fluency

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Jinja SQL

dbt

GCP BigQuery

Cloud Functions

Python

PostgreSQL

AKS

Linux/WSL

GitHub CI/CD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Helm

Jenkins

GCP Dataflow

Cloud Run/Build

Looker

Semantic data modeling

Kafka

Strimzi

Kafka Connect

KRaft

HiveMQ

Job description

GeekSoft Consulting in Stockholm, Sweden seeks a senior IT specialist to design, build and continuously improve the client's online platform, ensuring scalability and reliability.

You will lead with deep expertise in data engineering, cloud platforms, and CI/CD, collaborating across teams. Fluent English is essential; Swedish is a plus. This fixed-term engagement offers an international, growth-oriented environment and opportunities to shape modern cloud-native architectures.