Description:
Sr Software engineer –Kafka
Microservices AWS & Cloud (5+ Years Experience to 12 years)
Required Skills & Experience:
RSA Kafka/Axon JD (4 demands)
Role Overview
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the Axon / Kafka Platform is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence of Client's enterprise event streaming platform. Axon is a fully managed, multi-tenant Kafka based platform (Platform as a Service) that supports mission critical, high-volume workloads across regions and environments. This role blends software engineering, distributed systems, and production operations, with a robust focus on incident management, observability, automation, and continuous reliability improvement.
The scope and impact of responsibilities increase with job level, from hands on execution to platform level ownership and technical leadership.
The scope and impact of responsibilities increase with job level, from hands on execution to platform level ownership and technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Reliability & Availability
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and performance of Kafka clusters and Axon platform services.
• Operate and improve reliability mechanisms for brokers, partitions, replicas, Schema Registry, and replication services.
• Define, track, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
Incident Management & Root Cause Analysis
• Participate in on call rotations and provide hands on support during production incidents.
• Lead or contribute to incident triage, mitigation, and recovery for Kafka and Axon related issues.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and security teams during high severity incidents.
Monitoring, Alerting & Observability
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for Kafka and Axon
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