Senior Kafka Engineer | Confluent & AWS

Upvanta sp. z o.o. is hiring for a senior Kafka Engineer to join their Data Platform team in Wrocław, working on building a modern hybrid Kafka environment combining on-premise and AWS.

• Minimum 4 years experience with Apache Kafka
• Strong knowledge of Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud
• Practical experience with MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, or Confluent Replicator
• Experience building or maintaining hybrid on-premise and AWS environments
• Knowledge of AWS services, including VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, MSK, S3, KMS, and Secrets Manager
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Knowledge of Python, Bash, or Ansible
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
• Understanding Kafka security: TLS, SASL, ACL, RBAC
• Ability to independently solve problems and optimize production environments

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, Schema Registry, Flink, Confluent Control Center, OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack
• Experience automating Kafka integration tests

• Designing and developing hybrid Kafka architecture on-premise and AWS
• Building and configuring Kafka clusters, MSK, and Confluent Cloud environments
• Implementing data replication using MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, or Replicator
• Configuring Confluent components including Schema Registry, Flink, Control Center, and Tableflow
• Creating AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Automating deployments and integration tests
• Configuring monitoring and observability tools
• Optimizing Kafka environment performance, reliability, and latency
• Participating in incident resolution and creating runbooks
• Collaborating with Data Engineering, DevOps, and Security teams
• Knowledge sharing and mentoring less experienced team members

Informujemy, że administratorem danych jest Upvanta sp. z o.o z siedzibą w Warszawie, ul. Prosta 70. Dane osobowe przetwarzane będą w celu realizacji procesu rekrutacji oraz zgodnie z obowiązującymi przepisami prawa.