About this role

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 135 - 170 PLN/H

What will you do?

You will be responsible for the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, ensuring platform stability, scalability, performance and observability while supporting the automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

Your tasks

- Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry

- Deploy and operate Kafka components on Kubernetes, including scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting

- Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end

- Provision and manage Kafka Topics and Role-bindings

- Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB and GCP Pub/Sub

- Manage Kafka Connect components, including workers, tasks, converters and SMTs

- Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure platform observability and resilience

- Automate operational and maintenance activities using scripting and automation tools

- Perform benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning to ensure scalable and efficient data streaming

- Lead root cause analysis for production incidents

- Document incident findings and implement preventative improvements to increase platform reliability

Requirements

- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka

- Strong knowledge of Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes

- Experience in end-to-end Kafka platform administration and operations

- Experience with Kafka Topics and Role-bindings

- Experience configuring and maintaining Kafka connectors

- Knowledge of Kafka Connect workers, tasks, converters and SMTs

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk

- Experience with scripting and automation of operational activities

- Experience with Kafka performance analysis, benchmarking and tuning

- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production environments

- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month

Nice to have

- Experience with MQ integrations

- Experience with MongoDB integrations

- Experience with GCP Pub/Sub integrations

- Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and Confluence