We are seeking an experienced Technology Engineer with strong expertise in Redis, Kafka, and cloud-native platform engineering to join our Technology Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise Redis and Kafka platforms supporting high-performance, real-time, mission-critical applications. The role requires strong experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, automation, DevOps, cloud technologies, CI/CD, and production support. The successful candidate will work closely with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure platform scalability, resilience, performance, and security. Requirements Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, configure, and manage Enterprise Redis and Open Source Redis clusters. • Deploy, administer, and optimize Apache Kafka clusters for high-throughput, real-time streaming environments. • Ensure high availability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and security of Redis and Kafka platforms. • Perform Redis and Kafka performance tuning, capacity planning, health monitoring, and optimization. • Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed platform environments. • Manage platform upgrades, patching, configuration management, and lifecycle maintenance. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and GitOps methodologies. • Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using modern cloud automation tools. • Support cloud-native platform deployments across AWS, Azure, OCI, and OpenShift environments. • Collaborate with development teams to support caching, messaging, streaming, and distributed application requirements. • Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational best practices for production environments. • Drive platform governance, engineering standards, security compliance, and operational excellence. • Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Application Engineering teams. • Support Agile delivery methodologies and participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical discussions. • Research, evaluate, and benchmark new platform technologies and engineering best practices. • Ensure platform compliance with organizational security, regulatory, encryption, anonymization, and data integrity standards. Required Technical Skills Redis • Strong hands-on experience with Enterprise Redis and Open Source Redis. • Redis Cluster design, deployment, administration, and management. • Redis performance tuning and optimization. • High Availability (HA), replication, clustering, backup, and disaster recovery. • Redis security and production support. Apache Kafka • Kafka installation, setup, configuration, and administration. • High-throughput messaging platforms. • Kafka cluster management. • Kafka monitoring and troubleshooting. • Event-driven architecture implementation. DevOps & Platform Engineering • OpenShift. • Jenkins. • ArgoCD. • Git. • GitOps. • CI/CD pipeline implementation. • Infrastructure automation. • Production platform support. Cloud Technologies Experience working with one or more public cloud platforms: • AWS • Microsoft Azure • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Distributed Systems Strong understanding of: • Distributed systems architecture • Distributed services resiliency • Network fundamentals • Host-level routing • Streaming platforms • Distributed caching • Performance tuning • Large-scale platform operations Streaming Technologies Experience with: • Kafka • Streaming datasets at scale Good to have: • Kafka Streams • Apache Flink • Apache Beam • Apache Spark • Similar streaming technologies Software Engineering • Design patterns • Automated unit testing • Integration testing • Production troubleshooting • Platform monitoring • Cloud-native application architecture Security & Compliance Strong understanding of: • Security engineering practices • Infrastructure security • Encryption • Data anonymization • Data integrity • Regulatory compliance • Secure logging practices • PII handling • Memory data protection • Vulnerability management Functional Skills • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Experience designing enterprise platform architectures. • Technology research and benchmarking. • Ability to influence engineering decisions across multiple teams. • Strong ownership mindset with minimal supervision. • Excellent troubleshooting and production support capabilities. Soft Skills • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills. • Strategic thinking with an innovation and R&D mindset. • Self-motivated and proactive approach to problem-solving. • Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and geographically distributed teams. • Strong presentation and interpersonal skills. Nice to Have • Apache Flink • Apache Beam • Kafka Streams • Apache Spark • Event-driven microservices • Cloud-native architectures • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Kubernetes • Container orchestration • Large-scale financial services or enterprise platform experience Preferred Experience • Enterprise Platform Engineering • Technology Platforms • Data Platforms • Real-Time Streaming Platforms • Cloud Infrastructure • High-Availability Distributed Systems • Banking or Financial Services domain (preferred)