Description

You will manage and maintain the Kafka streaming platform as a Site Reliability Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Perform SRE duties for the Kafka streaming platform, including cluster maintenance and implementing changes via documented installation and validation plans.
• Monitor platforms and follow runbooks and SOPs to manage platform and application issues.
• Troubleshoot and debug Kafka platform services and application problems to identify root causes.
• Conduct root cause analysis for major production incidents and implement proactive measures to improve reliability.
• Automate routine tasks using Ansible, shell scripting, or Python to reduce manual intervention and human error.

Required Skills

• 6 to 10 years of professional experience.
• Deep knowledge of Kafka architecture, including producers, consumers, topics, and partitions.
• Experience working as a Site Reliability Engineer specifically for Kafka platforms.
• Proficiency in writing Ansible playbooks for task automation.
• Experience with shell scripting and Python.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux system internals.
• Knowledge of networking and distributed systems.
• Ability to perform thorough debugging and root cause analysis.

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate