Contractor DevOps Engineer - Kafka Service
Sopra Steria is hiring a remote Contractor DevOps Engineer - Kafka Service. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting European Union based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to manage the Kafka service within our IT ecosystem.
Responsibilities include:
- Kafka Administration & Operations: Deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain Kafka clusters.
- Performance Optimization: Tune Kafka configurations, partitions, replication, and producers/consumers.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate Kafka infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Ansible.
- Monitoring & Incident Management: Implement monitoring solutions (e.g., Dynatrace) and troubleshoot issues.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure secure data transmission and compliance.
- CI/CD & Automation: Integrate Kafka with CI/CD pipelines.
- Capacity Planning & Scalability: Analyze workloads and plan for horizontal scaling.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Kafka administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka deployments.
- Familiarity with Kafka Connect, KSQL, Schema Registry, Zookeeper.
- Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK, Splunk).
- Understanding of networking, security, and access control for Kafka clusters.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD).
- Ability to analyze logs, debug issues, and propose proactive improvements.
Additional qualifications include: ITIL certification. Location: European Union. Employment Type: Freelance contract. Languages: English is required. Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience. Experience: 5-7 years minimum.