# Senior DevOps Consultant (Kafka) at GFT Technologies

> Open job at GFT Technologies in Kraków, Poland. Workplace: On-site.

Source: Poland Dev Jobs, https://poland-devjobs.com/jobs/gft-technologies-senior-devops-consultant-kafka-35tb1rg
Posted 30 October 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 31 October 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [GFT Technologies](https://poland-devjobs.com/companies/gft-technologies)
- Location: Kraków, Poland
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Contract
- Salary: zł 135–170 / hour (B2B)
- Polish: Not required
- Skills: Google Cloud, Grafana, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Prometheus
- Not mentioned in the job post: visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

**Type of contract:** B2B contract

**Salary range:** 135 - 170 PLN/H

**What will you do?**

You will be responsible for the management and operational excellence of Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment. You will work across the Kafka ecosystem, ensuring platform stability, scalability, performance and observability while supporting the automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

**Your tasks**

- Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
- Deploy and operate Kafka components on Kubernetes, including scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting
- Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end
- Provision and manage Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
- Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB and GCP Pub/Sub
- Manage Kafka Connect components, including workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
- Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure platform observability and resilience
- Automate operational and maintenance activities using scripting and automation tools
- Perform benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning to ensure scalable and efficient data streaming
- Lead root cause analysis for production incidents
- Document incident findings and implement preventative improvements to increase platform reliability

**Requirements**

- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Strong knowledge of Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Experience in end-to-end Kafka platform administration and operations
- Experience with Kafka Topics and Role-bindings
- Experience configuring and maintaining Kafka connectors
- Knowledge of Kafka Connect workers, tasks, converters and SMTs
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk
- Experience with scripting and automation of operational activities
- Experience with Kafka performance analysis, benchmarking and tuning
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in production environments
- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month

**Nice to have**

- Experience with MQ integrations
- Experience with MongoDB integrations
- Experience with GCP Pub/Sub integrations
- Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA and Confluence

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://poland-devjobs.com/jobs/gft-technologies-senior-devops-consultant-kafka-35tb1rg: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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