Site Reliability Engineer(Apache Kafka)

Role Title Site Reliability Engineer Kafka Streaming Platform

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer SRE to ensure the reliability availability and performance of our Kafkabased streaming platform This is an SREfocused rolethe primary objective is operational stability incident response monitoring and automation of the streaming environment rather than building streaming applications A working understanding of Kafka is essential to support and troubleshoot the platform effectively

Key Responsibilities

SRE Operational Reliability Primary Focus

Monitor platform health throughput consumer lag and performance proactively address bottlenecks

Respond to incidents INCs troubleshoot streaming issues and drive timely resolution

Participate in oncall rotation and support major incident management

Define and track SLOsSLIs for streaming reliability and availability

Contribute to root cause analysis RCA and implement preventive measures

Automate routine operational tasks to reduce manual effort scriptingconfig management

Support capacity planning and forecasting for dataflow growth

Maintain resilience through backup failover and recovery procedures

Platform Support Maintenance

Support and maintain Kafka stream applications from an operational standpoint

Stream app routine health checks

Collaboration Continuous Improvement

Work with development infrastructure and data teams to onboard and support streaming use cases

Document runbooks standard operating procedures and known error solutions

Identify and implement improvements to enhance stability resilience and efficiency

Required Skills Experience

Solid understanding of SRE principles reliability monitoring incident management automation

Working knowledge of Kafka topics partitions offsets consumer groups replication from an operational perspective

Familiarity with LinuxUnix systems and commandline operations

Scripting skills Bash Python for automation and operational tooling

Experience with monitoringobservability tools Prometheus Grafana Splunk

Awareness of ITIL processes incident problem and change management

Strong troubleshooting and problemsolving abilities

Good communication and documentation skills

Desirable Nice to Have

Experience operating Confluent Platform Schema Registry Connect ksqlDB Control Center

Experience with CICD pipelines and infrastructureascode Ansible Jenkins

Container orchestration understanding Kubernetes Docker

Understanding of security concepts SASL TLSSSL ACLs

Skills

Mandatory Skills : iRun-Incident Management & SRE, Kafka, Major incident management, System Reliability Strategy Design

Preferred candidate profile