Senior Kafka Engineer Offline

Project Description:

We build the platform, which supports various information gathering and processing across the bank and providing access to this data through a public cloud approach.

The solution will be built from scratch using the latest technologies. There is a potential to develop machine learning and data mining solutions as add-ons to the platform.

Responsibilities:

* Maintaining a series of Kafka clusters on both physical boxes and containers, ensuring that we monitor and meet all SLAs around performance, resiliency, and scalability

* Automating deployment processes and routine support tasks

* Providing alerting, technical documentation and operational support to allow us to identify and resolve incidents with the health of the cluster as quickly as possible

* Developing load and performance test plans and scripts in coordination with development teams

* Building a close relationship with clients and stakeholders to understand the use case for the platform, and prioritize work accordingly

* Working well in a multidisciplinary DevOps-focused team, building a close relationship with developers, and L1 Support teams

Mandatory Skills:

* You have experience working with an Apache Kafka instance running in production

* You have experience creating, deploying and supporting Docker images

* You have experience deploying and managing fault-tolerant, distributed systems on Linux/Unix, and have strong Bash/Shell experience

* You have experience setting up and deriving insights monitoring tools

* You are fluent in at least one programming/scripting language, preferably Python

* You have high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration and deployment

* You have proven capability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production

* You have experience working in fast-paced development environments

* You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital

Nice-to-Have Skills:

Languages:English - fluent