SRE/Kafka Platform Engineer

• Support, monitor, and maintain microservices-based data platforms in production environments.
• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents across distributed systems and streaming platforms.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of Kafka-based ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Own operational readiness across non-production and production environments, including

• Kafka + SRE + Microservices + Platform Ops
• Strong in production support + incident management + observability
• Comfortable with cloud (AWS/Azure) + Kubernetes + CI/CD tools
• Having hands-on experience in real-time data pipelines and operational readiness

Requirements:

• Strong programming expertise in Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, including:
• Topics, partitions, brokers
• Consumer groups
• Kafka Connect
• Lag monitoring and alert handling
• Proven experience in microservices architecture (build, support, and troubleshooting).
• Solid understanding of SRE principles
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Strong troubleshooting capability across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure dependencies, and application failures.
• Kafka, Platform Operations & Environment Readiness
• Experience with data ingestion mechanisms including Kafka, SFTP, and APIs.
• Knowledge of data formats such as JSON and Parquet.