Senior Kafka Engineer in Bucuresti

Location: Bucharest Working model: hybrid (2 days/week at the office) Contract type: CoE For our client in Bucharest , we are looking for a Senior Kafka Engineer . About the client: The company is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services.  Since 1993, they have used their software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, as well as a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. What You’ll Do: - Develop, enhance and maintain an asynchronous messaging system for seamless communication. - Provide a superior SaaS messaging solution for use by other teams and projects. - Offer support to other projects for message-processing and stream processing activities. - Engage in the development and enhancement of message and stream processing components within a Kafka-based messaging platform. - Manage and provide the messaging platform as a service to other application teams (onboarding). - Collaborate with product/application teams to optimize and improve their legacy systems. Must be proactive with good stakeholder communication skills. - Partake in on-call duties to provide timely resolution of issues. - Implement unit tests to ensure the reliability and stability of the platform. What You Have: - At least 5 year of development experience. - Practical and in-depth knowledge of Kafka. - Java development background. - Proficient in a diverse set of technologies including Azure, Kubernetes, Helm charts, Docker, and Kafka (Strimzi and Confluent). - Familiarity with Debezium, Maven, and Spring Boot. - Experience with Oracle and PL/SQL (a plus). - Work stack primarily around Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Helm, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Bash, ArgoCD, Docker, Kafka Strimzi. - Usage of Github for code versioning and Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines. - Comfortable working with Linux, log aggregation tools, and Elastic stack. - Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics monitoring. - Usage of Opsgenie and ServiceNow for incident handling and IT Service Management. - Experience with scripting language such as PowerShell, Bash, Python.