The Client:
Our client, a leading companies in Ireland, is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Kafka Site Reliability Engineer to work in Dublin, Ireland.
What Youโll Love:
- This role is part of a long-term strategic project within the Bank, so this is an opportunity to work for the top bank in the country on a Permanent / Rolling Contract basis.
- The role offers a Competitive Day Rate and Hybrid working option is available.
What you are expected to have:
- At least 5 years of experience in Confluent Kafka administration, security, and monitoring.
- At least 1 year of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Experience operatingย enterpriseโscale messaging or eventโdriven platforms.
- Familiarity with clustering, replication, persistence, and highโavailability patterns.
- Experience working in regulated environments with strong change management practices.
- Exposure to automation, reliability engineering, or SRE best practices.
What you will do:
- Administer Confluent Kafka clusters including installation, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance in Linux environments.
- Implement and support Kafka security using SSL/TLS for encryption, SASL authentication, and ACLs for topic-level authorization.
- Configure secure Kafka clients (producers, consumers, and connectors) with keystore and truststore management.
- Monitor Kafka cluster health and performance to ensure high availability and minimal downtime.
- Troubleshoot Kafka-related issues such as broker failures, consumer lag, authentication errors, and connector failures.
- Support and manage Kafka Connect connectors, ensuring reliable data ingestion and delivery across systems.
- Assist in broker scaling activities such as broker addition/removal and basic partition reassignment to balance cluster load.
- Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to integrate Kafka with enterprise systems and optimize streaming performance.
- Performed topic life cycle management including creation, deletion, partition increase, replication factor planning, and retention tuning.
You are good to apply if you are:
- Irish or EU or British Citizen, or holding a Stamp 4 or Stamp 1G permit.
- Residing in the specified job location currently
Why Should You Apply?
Aside from a highly competitive day rate/salary, this is a role that will provide a great balance of support and challenge for someone who wants to take the next step in their career.
Interested? Apply here:
If you feel youโve got the right skills and experience, we would absolutely love to hear from you!
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