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Description

Experienced Kafka Ops Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining Apache Kafka clusters. Expert in performance optimization, high availability, and securing data streams, proficient in cluster monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana).

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Choisy-le-Roi (up to 50km)

Thales
Kafka Ops
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
March 2023 - February 2026 (2 years and 11 months)
Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
Automation of deployments and monitoring of the Apache Kafka platform for a project involving collection, transformation, and provision of business and machine metric data.
● Design & maintenance of Helm Charts + Argo CD for automated deployment of Kafka 4.1 cluster (Strimzi Operator 0.51) and its resources (Topics, NodePools, Rebalances, etc).
● Implementation of tiered storage with Minio and RBAC with Keycloak authentication and OPA (Rego) access control.
● Setup of CI/CD pipelines ensuring zero-downtime updates.
● Monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana (throughput, lag, ISR, latency, disk) and creation of critical alerts.
● Close collaboration with Data teams for continuous integration and seamless deployment.
Kubernetes Docker Apache Kafka Elastic Stack (ELK) GitOps
SNCF
Kafka Ops
TRANSPORTATION
June 2020 - February 2023 (2 years and 8 months)
Saint-Denis, France
Automation of deployment and monitoring of the Apache Kafka platform (+Kafka Connect) for a data migration project from an ERP system to a PostgreSQL database.
● Sizing of clusters on Amazon AWS.
● Automation of the creation and configuration of topics / users / ACLs / Connectors.
● Monitoring of the Kafka platform and connectors on CloudWatch.
● Ensuring support and guidance for teams to facilitate the use of KAFKA and its components.
Apache Kafka Kafka Connect Java Python PostgreSQL
Sodexo
Kafka Ops
RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICE
November 2018 - May 2020 (1 year and 6 months)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Automation of deployments and monitoring of platforms such as Apache Kafka, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to provide an asynchronous exchange and log collection solution.
● Sizing and automation of the deployment of both Kafka and Elasticsearch solutions in Azure.
● Automation of the creation and configuration of topics / users / ACLs / Connectors.
● Development of several data ingestion tools into Kafka.
● Development of several tools for processing, transforming, and loading data into Elasticsearch.
● Implementation of dashboards in Kibana.
● Monitoring of Apache Kafka / Elastic Stack platforms.
Apache Kafka Kafka Connect Elastic Stack (ELK) Java Python