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IDBC Kft

Kafka Platform / Site Reliability Engineer

IDBC Kft Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary

IT Services and IT Consulting · 201-500 employees

3 d ago
sre Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Hungary
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About the role

You will operate and maintain production Kafka clusters and the surrounding ecosystem including Schema Registry and Kafka Connect. Additionally, you will build and manage Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows for the streaming platform.

What they look for

Apache Kafka Kubernetes Terraform Terragrunt Ansible GitOps Schema Registry Kafka Connect Infrastructure-as-Code Go Distributed Systems Aiven

Requirements

Candidates must have hands-on experience operating Apache Kafka in production and strong working knowledge of Kubernetes. Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and experience troubleshooting distributed streaming systems are also required.

Full description

  • Operate and

maintain production Kafka clusters and surrounding ecosystem (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect)

  • Develop and manage

Kubernetes CRDs and Operators for Kafka resource lifecycle management

  • Build and maintain

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible) for the streaming platform

  • Implement and

maintain GitOps workflows for declarative infra and Kafka resource management

  • Troubleshoot and

resolve incidents in distributed streaming systems running on Kubernetes

  • Collaborate with

an international engineering team

Requirements

  • Hands-on

experience operating Apache Kafka in production, including Schema Registry and Kafka Connect

  • Strong working

knowledge of Kubernetes, including writing/managing CRDs and Operators

  • Experience with

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; ideally Terragrunt and Ansible)

  • Familiarity with

GitOps-style workflows (declarative infra/Kafka resource management via code + K8s CRDs)

  • Experience

troubleshooting distributed streaming systems in a Kubernetes-native environment

  • Strong English

communication skills, international team

Nice to Have

  • Go knowledge

(Operators/internal tooling written in Go)

  • Kafka on Aiven

experience

  • German language

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