Axon/Kafka Platform Engineer

About the Job

As a specialist in electronics and software for the past 20 years, in-tech is a dynamic, fast-growing engineering company headquartered in Munich, Germany employing around 2350 employees globally across 20 project locations in 8 countries.

in-tech develops innovative engineering solutions for the automotive, rail, aerospace, defence, and industrial sectors.

We are committed to a flexible, modern work culture and work-life balance. Our colour orange stands for liveliness, warmth, and dynamism. We value a strong team spirit, fresh ideas and a positive work culture. We call it the Orange Spirit! Since 2024, in-tech became a subsidiary of Infosys Ltd. This strategic partnership enables us to offer our customers even more comprehensive development and digitalisation services and a greater offshore capability.

We are looking for an experienced Axon/Kafka Platform Engineer to manage and enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of our Kafka-based Axon platform to join our customer location at Pune. The role focuses on production support, incident management, monitoring, and automation for large-scale, mission-critical systems. If you're passionate about joining a growing and dynamic team with a company with a positive culture and team spirit, we'd love to connect with you!

Roles & Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability and performance of Kafka clusters and Axon platform services
• Monitor systems, manage alerts, and improve observability
• Handle production incidents, perform RCA, and drive resolution
• Support platform upgrades, changes, and release activities
• Automate operational tasks and reduce manual effort (MTTR improvement)
• Collaborate with teams for platform onboarding and best practices
• Maintain runbooks and operational documentation

Requirements

• Minimum 6 - 10 yrs of experience required
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar messaging/streaming platforms
• Strong knowledge of Linux, and networking fundamentals and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience in production support and incident management
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Bash, or Java)
• Experience in enterprise Kafka platforms (multi-cluster/multi-region)
• Familiarity with Schema Registry, replication, and security/encryption mechanisms.
• Exposure to cloud or hybrid infrastructure preferred

Apply with us

If you have experience and team spirit and are looking for a great place to work, then start your job with us.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, in-tech is committed to equal employment opportunity without regard for age, race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.