K8s & Kafka engineer
- Akaasa Technologies
- 10 - 20 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
Job Title: K8s & Kafka engineer
Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Remote
Job Type: Fulltime
Client: Bits In Glass
About the Role
- We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes to join our platform engineering team.
- This role focuses on supporting and enhancing the component stack of Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH), ensuring scalable, resilient, and
- high-performance data infrastructure.
- The ideal candidate will also have working experience in Public/Private Cloud, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and a strong understanding of security and
- networking, enabling them to build and manage robust, cloud-native services supporting real-time customer decisioning at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure, supporting Pega CDH, including external components, ensuring seamless integration and
- operational efficiency in cloud-native environments.
- Lead or support the migration of MQ systems to Kafka, ensuring seamless transition, minimal downtime, and optimized performance
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, and data pipelines, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
- Optimize Kubernetes configurations, cloud-native service performance, and data modeling for improved scalability and efficiency.
- Participate in capacity planning, disaster recovery design, and performance tuning for Kubernetes and cloud-native systems.
- Automate infrastructure operations using Kubernetes-native tools and industry best practices.
- Troubleshoot issues across the stack (storage, network, OS, application, etc.) and provide deep diagnostics.
- Maintain high standards of documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Cassandra and Kafka in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of data replication, partitioning, schema design, and Kafka consumers/producers.
- Experience in cloud-native deployments, ideally on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Solid experience managing and deploying services using Kubernetes (GKE or equivalent).
- Experience with Elasticsearch building and managing clusters, indexing strategies, and integration with data pipelines.
- Familiarity with Pega CDH and its external component ecosystem is a significant plus.
- Strong scripting or automation experience (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Bash, Python).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global, distributed team environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with observability tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Operations Suite.
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance in financial or regulated environments.
Thanks & Regards,
Vishal
Senior IT Recruiter
AKAASA Technologies, Inc.
vi***l@ak***a.com
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Automation DeveloperEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Akaasa TechnologiesLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: GCP Kafka Apache Elastic Search Kubernetes Gke Cluster Terraform Docker Ci/Cd Kafka Cluster Eks Python
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