Job Purpose

We are building the Common Data Backbone (CDB) – a strategic data platform that enables discovery, governance, and integration across our global geospatial data ecosystem. It connects multiple cloud services and end‑user applications through Apache Kafka, serving as the integration solution within the CDB for event orchestration and integration services. We need an experienced Kafka DevOps Engineer to expand and mature the Kafka infrastructure on AWS, focusing on secure cluster setup, lifecycle management, performance tuning, Dev‑Ops and reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly available Kafka clusters in AWS (MSK or self‑managed).
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive scaling.
• Automate infrastructure and configuration using Terraform and GitOps principles.
• Implement observability: metrics, Grafana dashboards, CloudWatch alarms.
• Dev...