# Technology Engineer - (Redis & Kafka)

> GSSTech Group · Bengaluru, India · — · Posted 2026-08-05

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

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)

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