Responsibilities:

• Carry out SRE duties for Kafka Streaming Platform. 
• Have thorough understanding on the Kafka architecture along with the concepts of Producer, Consumer, topics, partitions etc 
• Keep an eye on the platforms and adhere to runbooks/SOPs to manage platform and application problems 
• Familiarize yourself with the cluster maintenance processes and implement changes as per the documented installation and validation plans 
• Showcase robust troubleshooting and debugging skills, aiming to pinpoint and rectify the issue, while also offering advice on how to prevent such problems in the future 
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis of major production incidents, document for future reference, and put in place proactive measures to enhance system reliability 
• Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools to lessen manual work, decrease the chance of human errors, and boost system reliability.

Technical Skills:

• At least 2-3 years of experience for a junior level role and 5+ for mid-level/senior level working as a Site reliability engineer for Kafka Platform. 
• Deep level Knowledge on core Kafka components like producers, consumers, topics, partitions etc. 
• Troubleshooting both Kafka platform service, application problems and identifying the root cause. 
• Writing Ansible playbooks and automate manual tasks using Ansible, shell scripting and python. 
• Should be familiar with Unix/Linux system internals, networking, and distributed systems.