We are seeking an experienced Technology Engineer with strong 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.

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 new 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

Good 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.

Robust 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.

Strong 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