Fugro is looking for a Kafka DevOps Engineer to strengthen the team and expand and mature the Kafka infrastructure on AWS. The role focuses on secure cluster setup, lifecycle management, performance tuning, Dev-Ops, and reliability engineering to ensure Kafka runs at enterprise-grade standards.
Requirements
- Design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly available Kafka clusters in AWS (MSK or self-managed)
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive scaling
- Automate infrastructure and configuration using Terraform and GitOps principles
- Implement observability: metrics, Grafana dashboards, CloudWatch alarms
- Develop runbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and rolling upgrades
- Ensure compliance with security and audit requirements (ISO27001)
- Collaborate with development teams to provide Kafka best practices for.NET microservices and Databricks streaming jobs
- Conduct resilience testing and maintain documented RPO/RTO strategies
- Drive continuous improvement in cost optimization, reliability, and operational maturity
Benefits
- Positive work environment
- Great opportunities to stretch and develop yourself
- Freedom to grow faster
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunities for professional growth and development