Kafka DevOps Engineer

🚀Now Hiring: Kafka DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer 🚀

Are you passionate about building scalable platforms, automating infrastructure, and leveraging AI-driven solutions? We are seeking an experiencedKafka DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team supporting mission-critical production environments and next-generation platform automation initiatives.

📍Location: SF Bay Area, CA (Onsite Preferred)
📄Position: Infrastructure Engineer
📅Duration: Long-Term Contract

Required Qualifications

✅ 8+ years of overall IT industry experience
✅ 5+ years of hands-on experience withApache Kafka and/orNoSQL technologies
✅ Strong programming skills inPython and/orJava with a focus on automation and tooling
✅ Experience withCI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such asTerraform,CloudFormation, andGitHub
✅ Experience with cloud platforms includingAWS,Azure, orKubernetes-based environments
✅ Experience buildingAI-powered solutions,GenAI automation tools,Agentic AI systems, orMCP Servers
✅ Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting expertise
✅ Excellent analytical, debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills

Technical Skills

💻Cloud & Infrastructure
• AWS (EC2, S3, EKS)
• Kubernetes
• CloudFormation
• Terraform

🔄DevOps & Automation
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitHub
• Infrastructure Automation
• Deployment Automation

📊Data & Messaging
• Apache Kafka
• NoSQL Databases

🤖AI & Emerging Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Agentic AI Solutions
• AI-Driven Automation

🐍Programming
• Python
• Java

Preferred Qualifications

⭐ DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience
⭐ Production support, incident management, and root cause analysis expertise
⭐ Docker and Kubernetes administration, deployment, and performance tuning
⭐ Security best practices, vulnerability management, and CVE analysis
⭐ Monitoring, observability, and operational excellence initiatives
⭐ Self-service platform development and operational automation solutions

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Build, manage, and support Kafka and NoSQL platforms in production environments
🔹 Design scalable infrastructure architectures and deployment solutions
🔹 Develop automation tools for provisioning, monitoring, and operational workflows
🔹 Integrate AI and GenAI capabilities into platform operations and management processes
🔹 Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code solutions
🔹 Manage deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments
🔹 Troubleshoot infrastructure, platform, and application issues
🔹 Drive reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence initiatives
🔹 Collaborate with engineering, operations, and architecture teams to improve platform efficiency

Ideal Candidate

We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who thrives in complex production environments, takes ownership of platform challenges, and enjoys building innovative automation and AI-driven solutions while working with minimal supervision.