We are seeking an experienced Technology Engineer with solid expertise in Redis, Kafka, and cloud-native platform engineering to join our Technology Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise Redis and Kafka platforms supporting high-performance, real-time, mission-critical applications.

The role requires strong experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, automation, DevOps, cloud technologies, CI/CD, and production support. The successful candidate will work closely with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure platform scalability, resilience, performance, and security.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement, configure, and manage Enterprise Redis and Open Source Redis clusters.
- Deploy, administer, and optimize Apache Kafka clusters for high-throughput, real-time streaming environments.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and security of Redis and Kafka platforms.
- Perform Redis and Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, health monitoring, and optimization.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed platform environments.
- Manage platform upgrades, patching, configuration management, and lifecycle maintenance.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitOps methodologies.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using modern cloud automation tools.
- Support cloud-native platform deployments across AWS, Azure, OCI, and OpenShift environments.
- Collaborate with development teams to support caching, messaging, streaming, and distributed application requirements.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational best practices for production environments.
- Drive platform governance, engineering standards, security compliance, and operational excellence.
- Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, Architecture,



and Application Engineering teams.
- Support Agile delivery methodologies and participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical discussions.
- Research, evaluate, and benchmark current platform technologies and engineering best practices.
- Ensure platform compliance with organizational security, regulatory, encryption, anonymization, and data integrity standards.

Required Technical SkillsRedis

- Strong hands-on experience with Enterprise Redis and Open Source Redis.
- Redis Cluster design, deployment, administration, and management.
- Redis performance tuning and optimization.
- High Availability (HA), replication, clustering, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Redis security and production support.

Apache Kafka
- Kafka installation, setup, configuration, and administration.
- High-throughput messaging platforms.
- Kafka cluster management.
- Kafka monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Event-driven architecture implementation.

DevOps & Platform Engineering
- OpenShift.
- Jenkins.
- ArgoCD.
- Git.
- GitOps.
- CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Infrastructure automation.
- Production platform support.

Cloud Technologies

Experience working with one or more public cloud platforms:

- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Distributed Systems

Strong understanding of:

- Distributed systems architecture
- Distributed services resiliency
- Network fundamentals
- Host-level routing
- Streaming platforms
- Distributed caching
- Performance tuning
- Large-scale platform operations

Streaming Technologies

Experience with:

- Kafka




- Streaming datasets at scale

Valuable to have:

- Kafka Streams
- Apache Flink
- Apache Beam
- Apache Spark
- Similar streaming technologies

Software Engineering
- Design patterns
- Automated unit testing
- Integration testing
- Production troubleshooting
- Platform monitoring
- Cloud-native application architecture

Security & Compliance

Strong understanding of:

- Security engineering practices
- Infrastructure security
- Encryption
- Data anonymization
- Data integrity
- Regulatory compliance
- Secure logging practices
- PII handling
- Memory data protection
- Vulnerability management

Functional Skills

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience designing enterprise platform architectures.
- Technology research and benchmarking.
- Ability to influence engineering decisions across multiple teams.
- Strong ownership mindset with minimal supervision.
- Excellent troubleshooting and production support capabilities.

Soft Skills

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- Strategic thinking with an innovation and R&D; mindset.
- Self-motivated and proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
- Solid presentation and interpersonal skills.

Nice to Have

- Apache Flink
- Apache Beam
- Kafka Streams
- Apache Spark
- Event-driven microservices
- Cloud-native architectures
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Kubernetes
- Container orchestration
- Large-scale financial services or enterprise platform experience

Preferred Experience

- Enterprise Platform Engineering
- Technology Platforms
- Data Platforms
- Real-Time Streaming Platforms
- Cloud Infrastructure
- High-Availability Distributed Systems
- Banking or Financial Services domain (preferred)

📌 Technology Engineer - (Redis & Kafka) (Bengaluru)
🏢 GSSTech Group
📍 Bengaluru