IT Operations Engineer

Our client a leading global financial services and alternative investment administrator is seeking a Kafka Operations Engineer. Operating within the IT Operations Middleware unit in Makati this role is responsible for administering scaling and automating enterprise-grade Apache Kafka clusters. The engineer will partner with development and architecture teams to maintain a highly reliable secure and observable event-driven architecture.

• Cluster Management: Deploy configure and operate Apache Kafka production clusters including broker tuning topic management and ACL administration.
• Ecosystem Management: Administer key Kafka ecosystem tools including Schema Registry Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker 2.
• Infrastructure Automation: Build and maintain automated provisioning configuration and deployment scripts using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible).

• Performance & Monitoring: Optimize cluster performance conduct capacity planning and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana EFK stack) for alerts and metrics.
• Security & Governance: Enforce data governance standards and configure Kafka security protocols including TLS SASL-SCRAM and fine-grained access control lists (ACLs).
• Incident Management: Drive root-cause resolution for platform incidents with minimal client impact and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for critical applications.
• Developer Onboarding: Partner with engineering teams to onboard new producers and consumers contributing to the Event Catalog and Subscription API documentation.

• Education: Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Platform Tenure: 3 years of hands-on professional experience administering Apache Kafka or enterprise event-streaming platforms in production.
• Certifications (Preferred): Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) is a strong advantage.

• Kafka Ecosystem: Deep working knowledge of Kafka brokers Schema Registry Kafka Connect MirrorMaker 2 and event-driven architecture patterns.
• DevOps & OS: Solid Linux/Unix system administration networking fundamentals and IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible).
• CI/CD & Monitoring: Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins BitBucket Rundeck) and centralized monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana EFK).