Senior Kafka Platform Engineer Miejsce pracy: Kraków Technologies we use Expected Kafka GitHub Jira Confluence Jenkins About the project This role is responsible for the management and operational excellence of the Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. Your responsibilities Provide 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. Our requirements Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders. Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Thorough 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 environment Key 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, Grafana. What we offer Competitive salary Annual performance-based bonus Additional bonuses for recognition awards Multisport card Private medical care Life insurance One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN) Corporate parties & events CSR initiatives Nursery discounts Financial support with trainings and education Social fund Flexible working hours Free parking Benefits sharing the costs of sports activities private medical care sharing the costs of professional training & courses life insurance remote work opportunities flexible working time integration events corporate sports team retirement pension plan corporate library no dress code coffee / tea parking space for employees leisure zone extra social benefits employee referral program opportunity to obtain permits and licenses charity initiatives family picnics extra leave In-office gym Recruitment stages Online assessment Phone interview Job interview Welcome to HSBC! HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Our global businesses serve more than 40 million customers worldwide through a network that covers 63 countries and territories. HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. is HSBCs global finance, operations, risk and technology centre. We use our unique expertise and capabilities to provide specialised services – our people range from technologists transforming the banking experience to operations professionals managing 1.7 trillion payments a year. Our Purpose – Opening up a world of opportunity – explains why we exist. We are bringing together the people, ideas and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world – for our customers, our people, our investors, our communities and the planet we all share. 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