Job Type : Contract
Number Of Applications : 0
Job Posted On : 29/09/2025
Job Posted On : 29/09/2025
Job Duration: 6 months
Daily Salary: Negotiable
Job Tittle: DevOps_Kafka
Location: Dublin
Primary Skill :: Kafka, Jenkins, Chef, Scripting, SRE, Splunk, Dynatrace(Any monitoring tool)
Secondary Skills :: git, XLR
• Expertise in managing and operating Apache Kafka, NATS and MQ. Includes configuring
topics (Kafka) or subjects (NATS), ensuring high availability, scaling clusters, monitoring
performance metrics (e.g., consumer lag, throughput), and troubleshooting issues like message loss or
latency. Involves understanding partitioning (Kafka) and pub/sub patterns (NATS) for event streaming
and messaging.
• Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation scripts, tools, and
integrations. Involves writing clean, maintainable code, debugging, API interactions, version control
(e.g., Git), and unit testing.
• Proficiency in tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Jaeger/Zipkin for
logs, metrics, and tracing. Involves defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), setting Service Level
Objectives (SLOs), and creating dashboards for system health insights.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions. Includes
automating build, test, and deployment processes, as well as rollback mechanisms for reliability.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix. Includes managing processes, file systems, permissions, kernel
tuning, shell scripting, server configuration, updates, and security.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for
infrastructure as code (IaC). Includes managing virtual machines, serverless architectures, and
container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) for scalability and high availability.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and firewalls. Includes configuring
network services and troubleshooting with tools like Wireshark or traceroute.
• Skills in diagnosing and resolving production issues using logs, metrics, and debugging tools.
Includes incident management (e.g., PagerDuty), root cause analysis (RCA), and blameless
postmortems.
• Familiarity with securing infrastructure, managing secrets (e.g., Vault), zero-trust principles, and
compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR). Includes vulnerability
management and secure configuration.
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