About Us:

Joining Capco means joining an organization that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you're encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. Its important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can. We believe that everyone brings something different to the table so wed love to know what makes you different.

We are/have:

Experts in banking and payments, capital markets and wealth and asset management

Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.

Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

JOB SUMMARY:

Platform Operations Engineer AWS & Kafka (Amazon MSK) Overview Were looking for an experienced Platform Operations Engineer to lead the administration and optimization of our Kafka-based data streaming infrastructure on AWS. This role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across our Amazon MSK clusters and supporting cloud services. You'll work closely with engineering and DevOps teams to maintain a secure, high-throughput event streaming environment that underpins key business applications and analytics platforms.

Must-Have Qualities:

- 10+ years of hands-on experience managing and administering Apache Kafka and/or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK).

- 10+ years of professional experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, and VPC networking.

- Proven expertise in Kafka cluster setup, scaling, partitioning, replication, and monitoring.

- Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools especially Terraform.

- Solid understanding of Kafka security and data governance in cloud environments.

- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation scripting using Python, Bash, or similar languages.

- Skilled in troubleshooting distributed systems, caching architectures, and optimizing message throughput and latency.

- Effective communicator with experience collaborating across Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Data engineering teams.

Nice-to-Have Qualities :

- Familiarity with Kubernetes/EKS and containerized microservices deployments.

- Knowledge of Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams.

- Exposure to monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g., OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana).

- Experience with cross-region or multi-account AWS setups.

- AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional.

Preferred Experience

- 10+ years managing enterprise-scale Kafka environments and AWS cloud infrastructure.

- Prior work in large-scale data platforms or high-availability, low-latency systems.

- Experience in capital markets companies.

- Background in performance tuning, cost optimization, and incident response for streaming platforms.