Global Financial Firm located in Mississauga has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Kafka Engineer

Job Purpose

We are looking for an engineer with significant Kafka experience to join our team creating pipelines for new streaming applications for financial data. You will work closely with product owners and team members to deliver solutions through new and existing channels.

As a Kafka Engineer you will be responsible for the reliable, scalable deployment of multiple Kafka clusters. You will build and integrate with other systems for provisioning, monitoring, and alerting. Working closely with our support teams and development teams, you will help deliver this project with a high level of automation and reliability. We want to minimize manual processes and strong software engineering proficiency in this role is key.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a greenfield project with cutting-edge technology, which will have huge impact on our future technology architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Building and maintaining a large-scale Kafka platform (including components from the wider Kafka ecosystem) to support a range of big data streaming applications

Being the point of contact for new teams seeking to use the platform – i.e. supporting and onboarding their data and applications, seeking to automate these tasks wherever possible

Developing a suite of tools around the Kafka platform to give clients the ability to manage their data, e.g. by sourcing or sinking it from other on-premise databases and in the cloud

Building a close relationship with clients and stakeholders to understand the use case for the platform, and prioritise work accordingly

Working well in a multidisciplinary DevOps-focused team, building a close relationship with development, SRE and L1 Support teams

Skills & Qualifications:





You have at least six months experience working with an Apache Kafka instance running in production

You have familiarity with the wider Apache Kafka ecosystem (Streaming, KSQL, Connect Platform)

You are passionate about databases and worked in the past with a range of SQL/NoSQL technologies (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, Couchbase, BigQuery)

You have experience deploying and managing fault-tolerant systems on Linux/Unix

You are fluent in at least one programming/scripting language, preferably Python

You would potentially have familiarity with Docker/OpenShift and Cloud Platforms

You have high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration and deployment

You have proven capability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production

You have experience working in quick paced development environments

You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital

Job Background/context

We believe the future's here. Right here with us. Home to where we define, ideate, develop and distribute production-ready financial solutions of far-reaching impact. And right now, the door's open to direct the future of our technology for a truly global client base.

This means collaborating with the keenest minds in data science, big data, software engineering, web development, UX design and more. Doers looking to bring the next bold ideas to life for a fascinating array of clients - investing, trading and transacting at the forefront of change in markets and economies the world over.

If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity. In a supported, resource-rich, vibrant co-working environment, part of an ecosystem of globally interconnected labs, realising a broader mission of enabling growth and economic progress on a scale you won't find anywhere else.

📌 Kafka Engineer (Mississauga)
🏢 Axelon Services
📍 Mississauga