Kafka / Integration SRE

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Job Description

Kafka / Integration SRE

Location: Hyderabad / Chennai / Bangalore

Experience: 8 - 15 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days

Requirements:

• Strong working knowledge of Kafka and Confluent Platform administration, including brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, certificates and security controls.
• Experience operating and supporting production Kafka platforms within a regulated, business-critical environment.
• Experience supporting Kafka scalability, performance tuning, capacity management, resilience, cluster upgrades, cluster linking, replication and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, schema management, consumer onboarding, integration patterns and operational monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes platforms, preferably GKE, including service networking, deployments and operational troubleshooting.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, incident management and problem management.
• Good understanding of resilience engineering, disaster recovery, capacity planning, operational readiness and support models.
• Ability to work across engineering, SRE, supplier and neighbouring platform teams to improve integration reliability and ownership.
• Banking or core banking platform experience.
• Experience working with Thought Machine Vault.
• Experience with Apigee, API management, service mesh, Istio, Dynatrace or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience supporting AlloyDB, PostgreSQL or other cloud-native database technologies.
• Knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience working with strategic technology suppliers and managed service providers.
• Understanding of security, identity, networking and service-to-service communication patterns within cloud environments.