Devops

In-scope technologies/products: "Streaming Platform: Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ZooKeeper/KRaft DevOps / CI-CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Container Platform: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Confluent Control Centre Supporting: Terraform, Ansible" Skillsets required: 1. Core Kafka Expertise (Must-Have) • Kafka architecture: brokers, topics, partitions, replication • Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ZooKeeper/Kraft • Topic & partition management, consumer groups • Performance tuning, retention, throughput optimisation • Cluster setup, upgrades, scaling and failover • Troubleshooting (e.g. lag, ISR, leader issues) • Security: SSL/TLS, ACLs, authentication, encryption 2. DevOps & Automation Skills (Must-Have) • CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.) • Configuration management and deployment automation 3. Kubernetes & Container Platform Expertise (Must-Have) • Understanding of Kubernetes technologies • Helm charts, ArgoCD / GitOps workflows • ConfigMaps, Secrets, cert management • Rolling updates, pod lifecycle, scaling 4. Cloud Engineering (Must-Have) • Understanding of any one of the Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP 5. Monitoring, Observability & Reliability (Must-Have) • Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Confluent Control Centre • Alerting & SRE practices"