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What does your job as an Kafka Engineer look like:

• As an Kafka Engineer, you will provide advice on Event-Driven Architecture to our customers
• You'll translate EDA principles into technical designs and solutions
• Help our customers adopt Apache Kafka and related technologies
• Collaborate with other team members to ensure successful project delivery
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments
• Actively share knowledge within the i8c Community
• You will further grow as an integration expert with a focus on the EDA ecosystem (incl. Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, … )

What we expect from our Kafka Engineer:

• Thorough understanding of Event-Driven Architecture
• Thorough understanding of Enterprise Integration Concepts like; Application Integration, Messaging & API Management.
• Knowledge of data formats and standards like JSON, XML, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, Avro, Protobuf, Oauth2, …
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Experience with Java
• Experience with Kubernetes (and/or Red Hat OpenShift)
• Experience with DevOps tooling like Tekton, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, …
• Experience with one or more integration platforms. (ex. Software AG webMethods ESB, Mulesoft Anypoint, IBM ACE, WSO2, TIBCO BusinessWorkx, Red Hat Fuse/Camel, … )
• Experience with a public cloud like AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• You’re fluently explaining your designs in English. Dutch and/or French is a plus