DevOps Engineer (Kafka Expert)

Summary

Andersen is hiring a DevOps Engineer (Kafka Expert) for a global trading group. The role focuses on migrating from RabbitMQ to Apache Kafka to handle trading, payments, BI, and real-time data flows.

The customer is a global online trading group operating in Europe and Asia. Founded in 2007, it has grown from retail forex into multi-asset trading and today serves over 3 million accounts, focusing on innovation, transparency, and accessibility.

The project is a full migration from RabbitMQ to Apache Kafka, which will become the core of the architecture, handling trading orders, quote streams, payment transactions, BI, and real-time data flows.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing high-load Kafka architecture, including migration from RabbitMQ.
• Ensuring high availability, zero data loss, and strict consistency guarantees.
• Optimizing cluster performance and infrastructure to meet financial system requirements.
• Configuring monitoring, replication, and supporting the team in Kafka integration.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience implementing, operating, and supporting Kafka in high-load, mission-critical environments for 4+ years.
• Deep knowledge of Kafka internals and architecture.
• Proven experience in designing clusters for very high throughput and low-latency use cases.
• Understanding of hardware, storage, and network configurations and their impact on performance, stability, and failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with replication, partitioning, broker tuning, ISR management, and retention policies at scale.
• Familiarity with side effects and gotchas (e.g., GC pauses, Zookeeper/KRaft issues, producer/consumer tuning, cross-DC replication challenges).
• Strong background in monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting Kafka under extreme load.
• Level of English – from Intermediate plus and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!