Kafka SRE

Mindbox is a tech-driven company connecting top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe. The role focuses on managing Kafka clusters deployed on Kubernetes within a global streaming infrastructure team.

• Strong technical knowledge of Kafka architecture and data streaming ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kafka in containerized environments (Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in automation and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Familiarity with tooling: GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers and technical stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Confluent Kafka and other messaging technologies.
• Previous work in enterprise-scale or global infrastructure teams.

• Operate and administer Kafka clusters end-to-end (brokers, Zookeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry).
• Deploy and maintain Kafka components and connectors (MQ, Splunk, MongoDB, GCP Pub/Sub).
• Implement monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Troubleshoot, benchmark, and optimize Kafka performance and scalability.
• Automate operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead incident root cause analysis and drive preventive improvements.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams and align activities across time zones.