We are actively seeking an experienced Senior Kafka Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for installing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Kafka platform, ensuring optimal performance and security, and developing new features, automation, and integration. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting PagerDuty and Uptrends SaaS, including automation of these platforms' support.

The remote option applies only to the Candidates who will be working from any location in Greece.

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Responsibilities

• Install and provision new Kafka clusters and supporting components
• Regularly monitor the health and performance of the Kafka platform and data pipelines
• Identify and fix issues related to the platform, including data pipelines, network problems, cloud or containerization resources failures, or software bugs
• Perform regular performance tuning of Kafka platform components
• Monitor and optimize the cost and performance of Kafka clusters
• Upgrade the Kafka platform to newer versions, including planning, testing, and implementation
• Manage the security of the Kafka platform, including access control lists, encryption, and regular security reviews
• Perform regular backups and disaster recovery procedures
• Manage the capacity of the Kafka platform, including projecting future growth and scaling needs
• Document procedures, configurations, and issue resolutions, and share knowledge with the team

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Proven experience in the implementation and maintenance of Confluent Platform
• Expertise in Kafka Confluent Stack
• Experience in automating processes and maintaining automated scripts
• Familiarity with Terraform
• Knowledge of HELM Kubernetes/Containers, Docker
• Proficiency with Cloud GCP (compute, networking, storage, IAM) and Cloud AWS (compute, networking, storage, IAM) - Intermediate
• Skills with Jenkins (pipelines, groovy)
• Python/Shell scripting and automation experience
• Linux administration knowledge
• Experience with PagerDuty and Uptrends
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• B2+ English level proficiency

We offer

• For you:
• Paid annual vacation
• Paid sick leave days
• Private health insurance
• Stable income
• Meal and home office compensation
• For your comfortable work:
• Remote and hybrid work opportunities
• Corporate laptop
• Possibility to work on your own device
• Free licensed software
• Relocation opportunities
• Free wellbeing activities
• For your growth:
• Possibility to create a Personal Development Plan from the first day in the company
• Free trainings for technical and soft skills
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning platform
• Free access to internal and external e-Libraries
• Certification opportunities
• Language courses
• Internal technical and non-technical communities
• Possibility to contribute in internal, opensource products

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to positively impacting our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to learn and grow continuously. You will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

EPAM is committed to providing our global team of 52,800+ EPAMers with inspiring careers. EPAMers lead with passion and honesty and think creatively. Our people are the source of our success, and we value collaboration, try always to understand our customers' business, and strive for the highest standards of excellence.