Software Consultant (Platform Engineering) - SRE - I & I Event Streaming

At ASB, we're all about doing what we can to help our customers get "One Step Ahead" by giving them the tools they need to manage their lives and plans for their families and future. Our products don't just serve ads or stream movies - they underpin our economy and touch people's lives. If you've always wanted to apply your skills to a large-scale Kiwi success story, then today is your lucky day - as we are on the lookout for a Software Consultant to join us in our Identity and Integration Platform! About the role: As a Platform Engineer in the Identity and Integration platform, you'll be part of our team at the forefront of ASB's establishment of new modern integration platform. In the Engineering Practice at ASB, we encourage our teams to work autonomously in an agile way while actively growing their skills and expertise to improve customer outcomes continuously. You'll bring significant platform engineering and support experience and solid IT infrastructure experience. You will have to be comfortable with designing, configuring and maintaining integration solutions hosted on Cloud platforms. Automating these processes in the future is also in the mix. We advocate for T-Shaped teams which will take you through all facets of engineering on any given day. We are looking for a mix of technical skills to support the following activities: We are looking for a mix of technical skills to support the following activities: Design, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Confluent Kafka and DataStax (Cassandra/AstraDB) environments. Develop automation and self-healing mechanisms for Kafka and Cassandra infrastructure to improve system reliability and reduce manual interventions. Monitor system performance, optimize resource utilization, and proactively address issues to ensure uptime and performance SLAs. Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes. Ensure observability of Kafka and Cassandra clusters through logging, tracing, and monitoring (e.g., ELK). Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement CI/CD pipelines for efficient application and infrastructure deployments. Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including incident response, blameless postmortems, and SLO/SLA definition. Implement security best practices, including data encryption, access controls, and compliance with industry standards. About you: We'll value your proven initiative, problem solving abilities and leadership skills as we look for every engineer to lead from their position. With regards to background, the following capabilities are a must: 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure. Expertise in Confluent Kafka (topics, partitions, replication, schema registry, ksqlDB, connectors, etc.). Strong experience with DataStax Cassandra/AstraDB (data modeling, replication strategies, tuning, etc.). Hands-on experience in IaC (e.g.: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm). Strong coding/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), particularly in networking, security, and cost optimization. Deep understanding of SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and chaos engineering). Experience in monitoring and logging tools (e.g.: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK). Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work in fast-paced environments, and a proactive mindset. Two relevant certifications in Confluent Kafka, DataStax Cassandra, or Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP). These capabilities are not mandatory and would be favourable: Experience working within Agile and DevOps frameworks