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ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS

Junior DevOps Engineer

ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS
Luxembourg · Full-time · Mid-Senior

Are you passionate about DevOps and eager to take ownership of critical streaming infrastructure? We are seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize our Apache Kafka environment, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance across our IT ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer and operate Kafka clusters, ensuring high-availability production readiness.
  • Tune Kafka configurations, partitions, replication, and producers/consumers for optimal performance.
  • Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools (Infrastructure as Code).
  • Implement monitoring solutions and troubleshoot performance, latency, and failure issues.
  • Ensure secure data transmission, access control, and compliance with security best practices.
  • Integrate Kafka with CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and automation processes.
  • Plan for capacity, scalability, and failover strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with development teams to support Kafka-based applications.
  • Provide technical support, update documentation, and contribute to the knowledge base.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 2+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Kafka administration.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (setup, tuning, troubleshooting).
  • Proficiency in Python or Bash scripting and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes-based Kafka deployments.
  • Familiarity with Kafka Connect, KSQL, Schema Registry, Zookeeper.
  • Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK, Splunk).
  • Understanding of networking, security, and access control for Kafka clusters.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD).
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; ITIL certification is a plus.
  • Ability to work independently and in multicultural teams.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Experience with Confluent Kafka or other managed Kafka solutions.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architectures and stream processing (Flink, Spark, Kafka Streams).
  • Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
  • Certifications in Kafka, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms.

Requirements:

  • EU citizenship.
  • Fluency in English; additional European languages are a plus.

Interested?

If you are ready to take on this challenge and grow your career in a dynamic, innovative environment, we invite you to apply now!

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Posted
Sep 05, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Luxembourg

Industries

IT Services IT Consulting

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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