Some careers shine brighter than others.If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.Your career opportunityThis role is responsible for the management and operational excellence of the Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment.What you’ll doProvide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control Center. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.Create topics, setup redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, and configure appropriate alerts and create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.As a Kafka SRE you will conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, document for reference and put into place proactive measures to enhance system reliability. Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools and perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning. Conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, documenting for reference and initiating proactive measures to enhance system reliability.What you need to have to succeed in this roleMust be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders.Strong problem solving and analytical skillsThorough understanding of the Kafka Architecture Familiar with cluster maintenance processes and implementing changes and recommended fixes to Kafka clusters and topics to protect production.Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles environmentKey Technologies Messaging technologies –Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins Automation – Ansible, Puppet or similar Monitoring –Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, GrafanaWhat we offerCompetitive salaryAnnual performance-based bonusAdditional bonuses for recognition awardsMultisport cardPrivate medical careLife insuranceOne-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).Corporate parties & eventsCSR initiativesNursery discountsFinancial support with trainings and educationSocial fundFlexible working hoursFree parkingIf your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:Online behavioural testTelephone screenJob interview with the hiring managerWe are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.