Kafka Engineer

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Your responsibilities

• Design, deploy and support Kafka-based solutions on AWS (including MSK, EKS, Aurora and related services).
• Implement and maintain data replication between on-premises and AWS Kafka clusters using MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking and Confluent Replicator.
• Create and operate CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to provision and manage cloud Kafka infrastructure.
• Lead cluster migrations and replication projects, ensuring data integrity, performance and minimal disruption.
• Develop automation for Kafka integration tests and continuous validation of deployments.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability for Kafka and related services using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Confluent Control Center, OpenTelemetry and the Elastic Stack.
• Apply security best practices for Kafka and cloud services: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC and encryption at rest and in transit.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile settings, contributing to design reviews, runbooks and incident response.

Our requirements

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
• Strong expertise with Confluent Platform (Enterprise) and Confluent Cloud.
• Proven experience with cluster migration and replication technologies such as MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking and Confluent Replicator.
• Practical experience with AWS services including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining hybrid environments (on-premises ↔ AWS).
• Terraform experience preferred, including module development and testing (e.g., Terratest, tfsec).
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation with Python, Ansible and Bash.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tooling as listed above.
• Strong understanding of security concepts relevant to messaging platforms.
• Experience working in Agile teams using Scrum and/or Kanban, and practical knowledge of Jira and Confluence.

What we offer

• Remote working.
• Unique TEAL culture, relationship- and respect-driven community, non-corporate atmosphere.
• Agile approach and no bureaucracy.
• Outstanding integration trips to various places in Europe.
• Activities to support your well-being and health.
• Luxmed Gold Extended medical care and Multisport Plus benefit.

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