Kubernetes Engineer

Are you the Kafka Specialist / Site Reliability Engineer who helps maintain our customers’ real-time data platforms? Do you not hesitate to explore the issues behind teams' questions? Does improving the availability and predictability of "your" product make you proud? Then we are looking for you!

Who are we?

We are Axual, an "event stream processing" scale-up with a mission. Our mission is to unleash the power of information within large organizations in real time. We enable them to respond instantly to the ever-changing needs of their customers. We provide them with real-time data solutions based on Apache Kafka, including the tools and services to easily and securely manage their business data streams. We do this for clients such as Rabobank, Volksbank, the Norwegian Government, Stedin, Julius Bär and Eneco. Curious about the stories of these customers? Read everything here!

What you tell others you do:

“I am dedicated to providing the infrastructure and development facilities that make Axual a success and ensures that the performance of our platform is optimal at all times.”

What you actually do:

• Ensure that all the required metrics on the platform and related applications are gathered and easily accessible.
• Identify problems well before they become serious and proactively advise on opportunities to improve.
• As a subject matter expert, work in close collaboration with the development team and help improve their efficiency through infrastructure or automation improvements.

Why Axual?

Join us in a dynamic, fast-growing, international technology startup environment. Our core values are drive to improve, curiosity, and ownership. With us, you'll have all the freedom to contribute to the enhancement of our strategy, draw your own lines, and truly have the opportunity to make an impact. In addition to actively participating in the development of Axual, but also have ample opportunities for personal growth and development. Advancement within your role is definitely achievable. And on Thursday afternoons, you get to enjoy social drinks, and engage in exciting company events. Want to know more? Take a look at our website!

What we offer:

In addition to a competitive salary, you'll benefit from a pension plan paid by the company, 25 vacation days, stock appreciation right and a home office setup allowance. And yes, a MacBook Pro will be provided to ensure you perform at your best.

What you bring:

• Thorough understanding of and extensive experience administering Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud providers, such as Azure, AWS.
• Experience with deployment automation via Terraform.
• Development experience is a big plus (Python, Go).
• Experience writing and working with Helm charts is a plus.
• Experience with monitoring, distributed logging and metrics, setting up, configuring and analyzing to spot problems; (Prometheus, Grafana.)
• Really have that "monitor everything and anything" mentality, from an alerting as well as a metrics point of view.