Senior Kafka Devops Engineer – Streaming Platform & Sre (8–12 Years)

Cisco UK

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Apache kafka design and administration
Kafka mirrormaker cross-cluster replication
Kafka schema registry lifecycle management
** Cisco UK is seeking a Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in Apache Kafka and DevOps practices to join their Webex Persistence Team. The role involves designing and managing scalable Kafka-based streaming platforms while ensuring high availability and performance across both Webex Data Centers and AWS Cloud environments. **

Job Summary

  • The team designs and operates highly scalable persistence services powering the Webex Suite across global data centers and AWS environments.
  • You will play a critical role in managing mission-critical infrastructure by optimizing Kafka clusters for performance, reliability, and throughput.
  • Cisco offers limitless opportunities to grow and build solutions that connect organizations in the AI era through a collaborative team culture.

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** Cisco UK is seeking a Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in Apache Kafka and DevOps practices to join their Webex Persistence Team. The role involves designing and managing scalable Kafka-based streaming platforms while ensuring high availability and performance across both Webex Data Centers and AWS Cloud environments. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Apache Kafka design and administration
  • Kafka MirrorMaker cross-cluster replication
  • Kafka Schema Registry lifecycle management
  • AWS EC2 VPC S3 IAM CloudWatch EKS ECS
  • Infrastructure automation with Terraform Ansible Python
  • Performance tuning and capacity planning
  • Disaster recovery and high availability strategies

Nice-to-have

  • PostgreSQL OpenSearch Elasticsearch experience
  • Docker and Kubernetes containerization
  • Data pipelines and AI/ML workload exposure
  • Event-driven architecture collaboration
  • CI/CD tools Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Kafka design and cluster management
  • 2+ years of DevOps experience required
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services and infrastructure as code

Work Rights

Not specified

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