Experience
5+ years of experience in platform engineering, middleware, or infrastructure support.
3+ years of hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka in production settings.
Experience managing large-scale distributed systems.
Technical Skills
Apache Kafka administration and operations.
Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams.
Linux system administration.
Container technologies (Docker).
Kubernetes/OpenShift.
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
Scripting with Python, Shell, or PowerShell.