Infrastructure Data Engineer (Kafka) - Remote

Salary: £130,446 - 130,446 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience running Kafka in live production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kafka internals and the trade-offs involved in scaling and performance tuning.
• Experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Good scripting and automation skills, ideally using Python.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Strong knowledge of Linux environments, shell scripting, and system performance tuning.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, or similar container and orchestration tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems and streaming architectures.
• Experience supporting platforms where availability, resilience, and scale are important.
• Desirable: Exposure to stream processing tools such as Apache Flink.
• Desirable: Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Desirable: Knowledge of hybrid environments.
• Desirable: Experience with RBAC, multi-tenant systems, or usage metering.
• Desirable: Experience with MSSQL or other relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimise Kafka clusters in production environments.
• Design and improve Kafka infrastructure to support a range of streaming use cases.
• Tune Kafka settings including partitions, replication, retention, and throughput.
• Monitor platform performance and address bottlenecks, instability, and capacity issues.
• Build and support related components including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and ELK.
• Develop internal tooling and microservices to support self-service platform use.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Investigate production incidents, carry out root cause analysis, and make preventative improvements.
• Work with engineering, data, and analytics teams to ensure reliable data delivery.

Technologies

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• ELK
• ElasticSearch
• Flink
• GCP
• Git
• Grafana
• Support
• Kafka
• Kibana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Prometheus
• Python
• RBAC
• Terraform
• microservices
• DevOps

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We are Exalto Consulting, supporting a client in appointing an experienced Infrastructure Data Engineer with strong Apache Kafka expertise for a fully remote contract role. You will be joining a team based in Israel responsible for maintaining and developing core data infrastructure that supports critical business use cases. This position focuses on the operational improvement of Kafka infrastructure in live production environments while ensuring reliability and scalability. We offer the opportunity to work Sunday to Thursday, aligning with our team structure, which is essential due to a two-hour time difference from the UK.

last updated 14 week of 2026