Citi

Kafka DevOps Engineer

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3 months ago
Mississauga, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$94k - $142k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the global Kafka-as-a-Service App and Infrastructure Operations function, including follow-the-sun support.
  • Perform daily operational checks, continuous monitoring, regional handovers, and post-release or infrastructure-update health checks.
  • Provide L1/L2 technical support, resolve incidents and problems, and manage releases against service-level expectations.
  • Administer and support Kafka services across multiple clusters using automation.
  • Execute business continuity and resiliency procedures and contribute to operational efficiency improvements.
  • Manage change, release, incident, and problem-management processes.
  • Maintain technical support documentation and provide technical oversight during major issue escalations and outages.
  • Act as a liaison between platform users or tenants and platform engineering teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of proven experience in an Application and Infrastructure Operations role.
  • Solid production experience with the Kafka ecosystem, including Kafka Brokers, Kafka Connect, and Zookeeper.
  • Experience with other distributed messaging or computing platforms may be considered, along with willingness to learn Kafka.
  • Proficiency with Ansible for managing, installing, and upgrading Kafka services across multiple clusters.
  • Experience administering Unix systems and applications deployed on them.
  • Proficiency with monitoring systems such as Grafana and Splunk for application health checks.
  • Experience proposing and driving operational efficiency and process improvements within support functions.
  • Effective communication with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Experience with issue tracking, reporting, and Problem Management tools.
  • Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience.
  • Exposure to the Confluent stack, including ksqlDB, Rest Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center, is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time employment.
  • Global follow-the-sun operations environment.
  • Primary location annual base salary range of $94,300.00–$141,500.00.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache KafkaGrafanaSplunk

Categories

Citi

About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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