Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer -
Summary
Own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms, apply SRE principles, and automate operations using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.
FulcrumDigital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providingdigital transformation and technology services right from ideation toimplementation. These services have applicability across a variety ofindustries, including banking & financial services, insurance, retail,higher education, food, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Requirements
Are you passionate about distributed systems, high-scale messaging platforms, and automation-first operations?
We're looking for a Kafka Messaging / SRE Engineer to join our growing platform engineering team and help build, operate, and scale mission-critical messaging services.
What You'll Do
- Own and operate Kafka-based messaging platforms in production environments
- Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performance
- Drive DevOps & automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual operations
- Build and enhance automation using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines
- Perform incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and operational readiness
- Collaborate closely with application and platform engineering teams
- Contribute to Java-based tooling and platform enhancements
What We're Looking For
- 3-6 years of experience working with Kafka / messaging systems
- Strong understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, replication)
- Hands-on experience with SRE / DevOps practices
- Java development background (ability to debug, enhance, or build platform tools)
- Experience with Linux, distributed systems, monitoring & alerting
- Exposure to incident response, production support, and operational excellence