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Direktlink: https://www.prostaff.ch/de/jobs/26221
For a client in the financial services sector in Zurich, we are looking for an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer / Operations Specialist to support a business-critical Data Integration Platform team.
The assignment is intended to strengthen the team for approximately six months and focuses heavily on Kafka platform operations, production support and integration services.
- Operate, maintain and support the enterprise Apache Kafka streaming platform
- Ensure stability, availability and reliable operation of business-critical integration services
- Monitor Kafka clusters and identify performance or availability issues
- Troubleshoot and resolve incidents within production environments
- Perform platform maintenance and operational engineering activities
- Support application and integration teams using the Kafka platform
- Analyse logs, platform behaviour and system dependencies during incidents
- Contribute to platform optimisation, automation and continuous service improvement
- Support the Managed File Transfer service used for secure data exchange with external partners
- Work within a DevOps-oriented Data Integration Platform team
- Participate in operational processes including incident, problem and change management
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and operations
- Experience operating Kafka platforms in enterprise production environments
- Strong troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills
- Experience with monitoring, platform maintenance and performance optimisation
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and integration platforms
- Good Linux / Unix administration skills
- Experience with DevOps practices and operational automation
- Experience supporting business-critical production platforms
