Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka Specialist)

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (Kafka Specialist): Designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, highly available Kafka clusters in AWS for a strategic data platform with an accent on secure cluster setup, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and reliability engineering. Focus on automating infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps, implementing observability, and ensuring compliance with security requirements like ISO27001.

Location: Remote (Brazil)

Company

hirify.global is a leading Geo-data specialist providing invaluable insights from global geospatial data to help clients design, build, and operate assets more safely and efficiently.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly available Kafka clusters in AWS.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive scaling of Kafka infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure and configuration using Terraform and GitOps principles.
• Implement observability solutions including metrics, Grafana dashboards, and CloudWatch alarms.
• Develop runbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and rolling upgrades.
• Collaborate with development teams and drive continuous improvement in cost optimization and reliability.

Requirements

• 5-6 years in DevOps/SRE roles, with 4 years hands-on Kafka operations at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, ISR, controller quorum, KRaft.
• Expertise in AWS services: VPC, EC2, MSK, IAM, Secrets Manager, networking.
• Proven experience with secure cluster design (TLS/mTLS, SASL/SCRAM, ACLs).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and tooling.
• Kafka Certification.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS MSK advanced features.
• Knowledge of Schema Registry (Protobuf) and Kafka Connect.
• Familiarity with Databricks Structured Streaming.
• Certifications: Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS SysOps/Architect Professional.
• Geo-data experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Positive work environment with opportunities for growth and development.
• Freedom to grow and explore new ways to understand the earth better.
• Encourages diversity, equity, and inclusion, valuing varied viewpoints and experiences.
• Focus on safety of self and others at site.
• Emphasis on continuous learning and team collaboration.