Sopra Steria is looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the Kafka service within their IT ecosystem. The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing, maintaining Kafka infrastructure, and ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
Requirements
- 5-7 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, 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, ArgoCD)
- Ability to analyze logs, debug issues, and propose proactive improvements
Benefits
- On-call duties and shift work
- ITIL qualification is an asset
- Ability to grow skills in a constructive, collaborative team environment