DevOps Engineer with Kafka

Job Description

Be | Shaping the Future Poland has a proven position of being a reliable partner for financial services organisations to analyse complex requirements, find solutions and implement them in their entirety, regardless of their complexity. Since the foundation of Be Poland in 2013, we have been continually expanding and customising our spectrum of services. Today, we are privileged to have in our team the best individuals in each sector we operate within the financial services industry. Role: DevOps Engineer with KafkaLocation: Fully remote from PolandContract Type: B2B Our client, a provider in the financial services industry, is preparing its booking processing system for production. The system must handle very high transaction volumes reliably. We are looking for experienced DevOps engineers who know proven industry best practices and can apply them to establish production readiness at scale. Scope of the Role:Scalability & PerformanceCapacity planningHorizontal scaling and autoscalingPerformance tuningLoad and stress testing against throughput targetsObservability & AlertingGolden-signal metricsCentralized loggingDistributed tracing, dashboards, alerting and runbooksMessaging ReliabilityPartitioning and consumer designRetry/DLQIdempotencySchema governanceBackpressureData, Backup & Disaster RecoveryBackup/restore incl:Regular testsReplication/shardingRPO/RTODR playbooks and exercisesRelease & DeploymentCI/CD with quality gates, canary/blue-greenAutomated rollbackFeature flagsContainer orchestration (Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry)SRE GovernanceSLI/SLO and error budgetsIncident responseOn-callPostmortemsReliability by designThe initial focus will be on Kafka and MongoDB, with further topics following.Requirements:Proven track record of bringing distributed, event-driven, high-throughput systems into productionSolid knowledge of DevOps/SRE best practices and the ability to translate them into concrete, pragmatic solutionsProduction experience with Kafka and MongoDBFluent EnglishGerman is an advantageCan start ASAP