Senior DevOps Engineer, Couchbase, Confluent

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage AWS infrastructure, encompassing EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM.

• Take charge of Couchbase production operations, focusing on cluster architecture and sizing, bucket and GSI index management, XDCR replication, backup/restore processes, upgrades, and performance optimization.

• Oversee the Confluent/Kafka platform, which includes topic and partition design, Schema Registry management, Kafka Connect connectors, consumer lag monitoring, throughput optimization, and upgrades.

• Operate stateful production Kubernetes workloads, including Couchbase and Kafka operators, Helm management, cluster scaling, and upgrades.

• Manage infrastructure through code using Terraform.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for both application and data services.

• Lead platform monitoring, logging, and alerting, specifically focusing on the health of Couchbase and Kafka.

• Direct incident response efforts and conduct post-mortem analyses.

• Provide support for data and AI/LLM workloads.

• Oversee and optimize cloud expenditure.

• Collaborate closely with Python backend, data, and AI teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.

• 3+ years of experience managing AWS and Kubernetes in a production environment.

• Expert-level hands-on administration of Couchbase Server clusters in production, covering architecture, XDCR, indexing, backup/restore, upgrades, and performance tuning.

• Expert-level operational knowledge of the Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud, including brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, partitioning, consumer lag, and scaling.

• Experience with running stateful workloads using Kubernetes operators.

• Proficiency with AWS services: EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, and VPC.

• Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code principles.

• Experience in designing and owning CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of observability and incident response tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.

• Proficient in Docker and containerization techniques.

• Scripting capabilities in Python and Bash.

• Solid understanding of Linux and networking fundamentals.

• Must be based in Poland.

• Fluent in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Full-time employment.