Kafka DevOps Engineer
⚲ Bucharest, London, Riga, Warsaw
Do uzgodnienia
Wymagania
- DevOps
- Python
- Kubernetes
- AWS
Opis stanowiska
Why Verifone
For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.
Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.
Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.
Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.
What’s Exciting About the Role
Verifone is seeking a Kafka DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripting, automation, and pipeline development. You’ll be hands-on with day-to-day Kafka operations, reliability, tuning, and high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on-prem and in AWS Cloud. Beyond keeping the lights on, you’ll play a key role in building the data pipelines—of which Kafka is a core component—that power Verifone’s new AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives. You’ll also be part of an active effort to migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes, giving you hands-on experience with a meaningful infrastructure modernization project. The technology footprint is broad: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and more—so you’ll grow well beyond a single-technology niche.
Key Responsibilities
Kafka Operations & Reliability
- Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters (including MSK), Kafka Connect ecosystem, and KSQL for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging and event streaming pipelines.
- Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
- Handle day-to-day operational tasks including offset management, lag monitoring, consumer group management, and cluster rebalancing.
- Perform routine cluster maintenance: upgrades, configuration changes, scaling, and health checks.
Scripting, Automation & DevOps
- Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for patching automation.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with the opportunity to help migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes.
Data Pipeline Development
- Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, with Kafka as a core streaming component alongside batch and ETL processes, enabling new AI, ML, and analytics use cases.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for data flow, security, scalability, and performance.
- Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
- Support cloud migration tasks and assist in moving workloads between on-prem and cloud environments.
For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.
Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.
Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.
Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.
What’s Exciting About the Role
Verifone is seeking a Kafka DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripting, automation, and pipeline development. You’ll be hands-on with day-to-day Kafka operations, reliability, tuning, and high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on-prem and in AWS Cloud. Beyond keeping the lights on, you’ll play a key role in building the data pipelines—of which Kafka is a core component—that power Verifone’s new AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives. You’ll also be part of an active effort to migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes, giving you hands-on experience with a meaningful infrastructure modernization project. The technology footprint is broad: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and more—so you’ll grow well beyond a single-technology niche.
Key Responsibilities
Kafka Operations & Reliability
- Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters (including MSK), Kafka Connect ecosystem, and KSQL for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging and event streaming pipelines.
- Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
- Handle day-to-day operational tasks including offset management, lag monitoring, consumer group management, and cluster rebalancing.
- Perform routine cluster maintenance: upgrades, configuration changes, scaling, and health checks.
Scripting, Automation & DevOps
- Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for patching automation.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with the opportunity to help migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes.
Data Pipeline Development
- Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, with Kafka as a core streaming component alongside batch and ETL processes, enabling new AI, ML, and analytics use cases.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for data flow, security, scalability, and performance.
- Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
- Support cloud migration tasks and assist in moving workloads between on-prem and cloud environments.
🔍 Dekoder Ogłoszenia
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diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment
Może oznaczać, że praca jest interesująca i pełna wyzwań, ale też może wskazywać na chaos i częste zmiany priorytetów.
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employees are focused on results
Podkreśla nacisk na osiąganie celów, co może oznaczać presję na wyniki i potencjalnie długie godziny pracy.
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opportunities to excel
Sugeruje możliwość rozwoju i awansu, ale może też oznaczać, że oczekuje się od pracowników wybitnych osiągnięć, często kosztem równowagi między życiem zawodowym a prywatnym.
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proudly an in-office work culture
Wyraźnie wskazuje na obowiązkową pracę stacjonarną, co dla niektórych może być wadą, jeśli preferują pracę zdalną lub hybrydową.
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operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripti
Choć niepełne, sugeruje, że rola będzie mocno skupiona na bieżącym utrzymaniu i automatyzacji, co może oznaczać mniej innowacyjnych projektów, a więcej pracy operacyjnej.