Kafka Administrator

You will

• Maintain and administer on-premise Kafka clusters.
• Create a reference architecture for Kafka implementation standards.
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and KSQL.
• Ensure the optimum performance, high availability, and stability of solutions.
• Create topics, set up redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools and alerts, and have good knowledge of best practices.
• Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists, and SSL configurations.
• Participate in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage.
• Providing naming conventions, backup and recovery, and problem determination strategies for the projects.
• Monitor, prevent, and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide vision in engineering solutions that touch the messaging queue aspect of the infrastructure.
• Build geo-distributed systems.

Expectations

• Experience with Kafka, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Cruise Control, and Schema Registry.
• History of successful implementation and maintenance cases.
• Troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with Terraform, Vault, and Gitlab CI.
• Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine-tuning alerts on Prometheus Alertmanager or Grafana.
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes administration.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Strimzi.

Conditions

• Competitive and attractive compensation.
• Extensive learning opportunities, such as professional training and certifications, soft skills' development, free English courses, and trading workshops.
• Health and life insurance for employees, spouses, and children, including vaccinations, tests, mental health care, and coverage for vision and dental care.
• Generous time off, including 21 days of annual leave and paid sick leave.

If you prefer to work remotely, we offer:

• Allowance for sports club memberships or other physical exercise activities.
• Reimbursement for a work laptop, home office equipment, and coworking memberships.
• Special ‘Get to know your team’ trips.

If you decide to relocate to Cyprus, we offer:

• Flight tickets, hotel, or apartment accommodation for your first month, migration support, and legal help for you and your family.
• Education allowance for your children’s school and kindergarten fees.
• Access to our very own sports club with dedicated coaches, free Sanctum Club memberships for you and your spouse, corporate SUPs, jet skis, etc.
• A branded company car with a parking space near the office.
• Outstanding team-building experiences and Exness community gatherings.

Your journey after applying

• First interview (up to 45 minutes).
• Technical interview (1.5 hours).
• Final interview (1 hour).