What are the responsibilities and job description for the SRE/Kafka Platform Engineer position at Empower Professionals?
Role: SRE/Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: Richardson, TX (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months
Must have:
- Kafka SRE Microservices Platform Ops
- Strong in production support incident management observability
- Comfortable with cloud (AWS/Azure) Kubernetes CI/CD tools
- Having hands-on experience in real-time data pipelines and operational readiness
Requirements:
- Strong programming expertise in Java and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, including:
- Topics, partitions, brokers
- Consumer groups
- Kafka Connect
- Lag monitoring and alert handling
- Proven experience in microservices architecture (build, support, and troubleshooting).
- Solid understanding of SRE principles
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
- Strong troubleshooting capability across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure dependencies, and application failures.
- Kafka, Platform Operations & Environment Readiness
- Experience with data ingestion mechanisms including Kafka, SFTP, and APIs.
- Knowledge of data formats such as JSON and Parquet.
Responsibilities:
- Support, monitor, and maintain microservices-based data platforms in production environments.
- Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents across distributed systems and streaming platforms.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of Kafka-based ingestion and processing pipelines.
- Own operational readiness across non-production and production environments, including:
Best Regards Gunika Sharma
Technical Recruiter Empower Professionals Inc
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