Platform Engineer

Why this role matters

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to fully own and operate our Kafka platform on on-premise Kubernetes. You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our clusters - designing, scaling, and troubleshooting - while also enabling internal teams to use Kafka effectively. Alongside Kafka, you will support our broader ecosystem of Kafka Connect, Flink, and Temporal.io.

The role is based in our Limassol office, Cyprus. In case of relocation, we offer full relocation support for you and your family to make your move smooth and worry-free.

What you'll actually do

• Design and deploy new Kafka clusters based on business, SLA, durability, and availability requirements.
• Operate and maintain high-throughput Kafka and Kafka Connect clusters on on-prem Kubernetes.
• Maintain adjacent streaming platform components such as Flink and support their reliability and operability.
• Plan and execute safe upgrades, broker replacements, storage migrations, and cluster rebalancing activities.
• Manage cross-cluster replication and disaster recovery patterns using MirrorMaker 2.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility using Grafana, Alertmanager, and PagerDuty.
• Investigate production issues such as under-replicated partitions, disk pressure, producer latency spikes, consumer lag, partition skew, and client connectivity failures.
• Work directly with internal users to troubleshoot producer, consumer, schema, retention, and topic configuration issues.
• Help design resilient multi-cluster and multi-data-center setups to reduce the impact of infrastructure failures.
• Support the internal Temporal.io platform provided to engineering teams and help keep it reliable, scalable, and easy to consume.
• Automate routine operations and reduce manual toil using Python and infrastructure tooling.
• Maintain infrastructure definitions with Terraform and manage delivery workflows through GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD using GitOps practices.
• Contribute to platform security, access control, and operational standards across the streaming stack.

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong hands-on production experience operating Kafka clusters.
• Good understanding of partitions, replication factor, ISR, leader elections, retention, compaction, topic configuration, and broker-level behavior.
• Experience with Kafka capacity planning, scaling, balancing, upgrades, and migrations.
• Proven troubleshooting experience with distributed systems in production.
• Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting skills, ideally in on-prem environments.
• Experience building monitoring and alerting for critical systems and using that data during incidents.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows.
• Ability to work directly with product development teams and investigate user-reported issues.
• Clear communication and strong technical judgment.
• Strong critical thinking and attention to detail.
• Ability to use advanced English for different work and business purposes.
• Decision-making skills and the ability to adapt to new changes.

What we offer along the way

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
• Full relocation support for you and your family — flights, housing, visas, and legal assistance included
• Top-tier health insurance with full family coverage — medical, dental, vision, mental health — plus life insurance for peace of mind
• Unlimited learning opportunities: external courses, English lessons, career and leadership development
• Education allowance covering school and kindergarten fees
• 21 working days of annual leave, plus public holidays and fully paid sick, maternity, and paternity leave
• Employee appreciation program: branded gifts, birthday day-offs, celebration budgets for weddings, newborns, and milestones
• “Get to know Team” trips — meet colleagues across our global hubs, along with company-wide offsites that raise the bar
• Employee share scheme — grow with us
• Branded MINI Cooper Countryman company car and private parking
• Free in-house sports clubs, Sanctum Club gym access, and jet skis
• Access to a Corporate doctor
• Exclusive discount program with cafes, gyms, and local services
• Expat tax perks: up to 50% income tax exemption
• Support with the naturalisation process for relocated employees

What your journey looks like

1. Intro call with Recruiter (30 minutes)
2. Tech interview (90 minutes)
3. Behavioural interview (60 minutes)

Please use your exness work email for internal applications and ensure to disclose any existing Conflict of Interest you may have.