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Kafka Platform Engineer

·Israel
HybridFull-timeDevOps & SREFinancial Services

Operate and evolve an enterprise Kafka streaming platform across Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, Kubernetes, and on-premises environments. Support production reliability, cloud migration, automation, and secure platform operations in a hybrid work setting in Tel Aviv.

Responsibilities

  • Operate and monitor Kafka environments across Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and Kubernetes deployments
  • Track availability, consumer lag, replication, throughput, latency, storage, and capacity
  • Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and improve resilience, failover, and disaster recovery
  • Manage topics, partitions, retention, ACLs, consumer groups, Kafka Connect connectors, and Schema Registry
  • Deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and scale platform components and connectors
  • Automate provisioning and platform operations with scripting, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, architecture, data, and application teams to onboard workloads and improve governance

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of hands-on Apache Kafka experience
  • Strong knowledge of Kafka topics, partitions, replication, producers, consumers, and consumer groups
  • Experience with Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry
  • Production Linux experience, including monitoring, logs, networking, certificates, authentication, and access control
  • Scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools
  • Familiarity with Git and CI/CD
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Nice to have

  • Experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Confluent for Kubernetes, Helm, or Terraform
  • Experience with Debezium, single message transforms, Replicator, and source or sink connectors
  • Familiarity with observability, SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and disaster recovery
  • Experience in payments, fintech, banking, or another regulated environment
  • Confluent or Kafka certification

Benefits

  • Private medical insurance
  • Hybrid office and home working
  • Global bonus plan
  • Volunteering programs
  • Office near Tel Aviv train station

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