Must have

• Infrastructure as Code

• Kafka

• DevOps

• GitHub

• Jira

• Confluence

• Jenkins

• Ansible

• Puppet

• Datadog

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• English (C1)

Requirements description

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Thorough understanding of the Kafka Architecture
• Familiar with cluster maintenance processes and implementing changes and recommended fixes to Kafka clusters and topics to protect production.
• Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles environment
• Key Technologies: Messaging technologies –Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka, DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Automation – Ansible, Puppet or similar, Monitoring –Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana

Offer description

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Your career opportunity

This role is responsible for the management and operational excellence of the Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment.

Your responsibilities

1. Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control Center.
2. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.
3. Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
4. Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
5. Create topics, setup redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, and configure appropriate alerts and create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
6. As a Kafka SRE you will conduct root cause analysis of production incidents, document for reference and put into place proactive measures to enhance system reliability.

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