Kafka Site Reliability Engineer

We are currently recruiting for one of our trusted clients who are looking for a Kafka Site Reliability Engineer to join their team! This is your chance to join one of the world’s largest, multi-national IT consultancies, specialising in transforming businesses for over 75 years!

What You Can Expect

• Location - Warsaw, Poland
• Salary - 1,000 PLN per day
• Industry - Consulting
• Work type - Contract (6 months) Extendable

Main Responsibilities of a Kafka Site Reliability Engineer

• Carry out SRE duties for Kafka Streaming Platform.
• Have thorough understanding on the Kafka architecture along with the concepts of Producer, Consumer, topics, partitions etc.
• Keep an eye on the platforms and adhere to runbooks/SOPs to manage platform and application problems.
• Familiarize yourself with the cluster maintenance processes and implement changes as per the documented installation and validation plans.
• Showcase robust troubleshooting and debugging skills, aiming to pinpoint and rectify the issue, while also offering advice on how to prevent such problems in the future.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis of major production incidents, document for future reference, and put in place proactive measures to enhance system reliability.
• Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools to lessen manual work, decrease the chance of human errors, and boost system reliability.

Experience, Qualifications & Skills Required

• At least 2-3 years of experience for a junior level role and 5+ for mid-level/senior level working as a Site reliability engineer for Kafka Platform.
• Deep level Knowledge on core Kafka components like producers, consumers, topics, partitions etc.
• Troubleshooting both Kafka platform service, application problems and identifying the root cause.
• Writing Ansible playbooks and automate manual tasks using Ansible, shell scripting and python.
• Should be familiar with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems

What’s in it For You?

• Amazing company to work for!
• Flexible hybrid-working
• Great day rate
• Likelihood to extend

For further information on this Kafka Site Reliability Engineer role apply below

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