• 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