DevOps Engineer - Kafka Services

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - Kafka
Duration: 12months + Contract (Possible Extensions)
Location: Luxembourg (Onsite)

Role Overview:

• We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the Kafka service within our IT ecosystem.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing and maintaining Kafka infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• This role requires deep expertise in Apache Kafka, strong automation skills, and experience managing distributed data streaming platforms in a complex enterprise environment

• Kafka Administration & Operations: Deploy, configure, monitor, and maintain Kafka clusters in a high-availability production environment.
• Performance Optimization: Tune Kafka configurations, partitions, replication, and producers/consumers to ensure efficient message streaming.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate Kafka infrastructure deployment and management using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Monitoring & Incident Management: Implement robust monitoring solutions (eg, Dynatrace) and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, latency issues, and failures.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure secure data transmission, access control, and compliance with security best practices (SSL/TLS, RBAC, Kerberos).
• CI/CD & Automation: Integrate Kafka with CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Capacity Planning & Scalability: Analyze workloads and plan for horizontal scaling, resource optimization, and failover strategies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to support Kafka-based applications and ensure seamless data flow.
• Training and technical support to end users and other stakeholders.
• Writing/Updating procedure.
• To contribute to the knowledge base.
• Work together as a team.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Kafka administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (setup, tuning, and troubleshooting).
• 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, and 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, Argo CD).
• Ability to analyze logs, debug issues, and propose proactive improvements.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• An ITIL qualification is an asset.
• Strong communication skills (oral/written) to interact effectively and professionally with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to work in an international/multicultural environment.
• Ability to work both independently and with other team members.
• EU citizenship.
• You can work in shifts (7 AM - 8 PM) and provide 24/7 support.

• Experience with Confluent Kafka or other managed Kafka solutions.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and stream processing (Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) for Kafka networking.
• Certifications in Kafka, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms.