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Senior Engineer - Kafka
Joining Sainsbury's Tech as a Senior Engineer means becoming part of a leading technology organisation that powers the UK's top multi-channel, multi-brand retailer. We are a community of passionate engineers who are empowered to define and deliver through the use of technology. With a focus on continuous improvement and technical excellence, you'll have the opportunity to shape our engineering vision, drive adoption of best practises, and work with cutting-edge technologies. Not only will you contribute to innovative solutions that impact millions of customers, but you'll also be part of a progressive community that fosters growth, collaboration, and the advancement of engineering expertise. With the support and resources available, you can accelerate your professional development and enhance your skills within a dynamic, agile environment. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful impact within the retail industry while staying at the forefront of technological advancements.
We support and run multiple Kafka clusters, Confluent managed and self-managed in AWS.
Our AWS Kafka stack utilises Ansible roles to create AMI’s, which are deployed to AWS using Cloud Formation.
We provide self-service pipelines to allow engineers to use the Kafka clusters via GitHub actions.
We have a number of services running in Kubernetes to manage the cluster, Metrics, Kafka-Connect, Schema Registry, and GUI Tools.
We keep track of everything using Git, Jira & Confluence, with daily stand-ups, and empowered teamwork!
You don’t need experience with everything in this list!
About the role:
Managing and running a Kafka Platform, Confluent and Self-Managed.
Creation of self-service pipelines to empower engineers to utilise the cluster quicker
Supporting migrations from one cluster to another.
Create supporting infrastructure as code and use CI/CD pipelines to deploy your code into the cloud
Employ agile ways of working to discover, assess and build products.
Assist in architecting systems and products
Visualise your product’s behaviour in production
What we’re looking for:
Required:
In depth knowledge of Kafka, Kafka eco-system and administration of a Kafka platform
AWS; EC2, EBS, Lambda, Cloud Formation
Enthusiastic and motivated team player
Be open to learning other languages and platforms – don’t worry, we will support you to do this
Nice to have:
Terraform
Kubernetes
Ansible, Cloud Formation
Agile Methodology
In addition we expect the candidate to:
Have an eye for great customer service and delivery
Enjoy working on end-to-end stories in a multi-disciplinary team
Have previous experience working on Integration projects
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