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K8s & Kafka engineer @ Akaasa Technologies

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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 & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Automation Developer
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Akaasa Technologies
Location(s): Noida, Gurugram

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Keyskills:   GCP Kafka Apache Elastic Search Kubernetes Gke Cluster Terraform Docker Ci/Cd Kafka Cluster Eks Python

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