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Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Apps IT LtdLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 29 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer with Apps IT Ltd, you'll drive critical initiatives and gain exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies, fostering significant career growth. This hybrid role is ideal for a skilled Platform or SRE Engineer with deep Kafka expertise and a passion for automation, offering a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a reputable company. Embrace this chance to enhance your skills and make a real impact.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Senior, Kafka, Platform Engineer, SRE, Azure, AWS, CI/CD

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Kafka Specialist to support a company based in. This role would suit a strong Platform Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep Kafka expertise and a background in cloud native infrastructure and automation.

Key Skills & Experience:

  • Vast hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience on cloud with either Azure or AWS.
  • Reliability, scalability and performance tuning expertise.
  • Monitoring, alerting and incident response experience.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Experience managing and supporting highly available, production-critical environments
  • Infrastructure automation and operational excellence mindset

This is an excellent opportunity for a Kafka-focused Platform/SRE Engineer to join a well-established business on a long-term contract engagement.

Skills

AWS
Apache
Azure
Kafka
Kubernetes

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