KAFKA Software Engineer

Package Description

• Competitive Salary 
• Corporate Benefits Package 
• Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is a partner of choice to the European Institutions and other International Organisations. For the past 30 years, we have been providing European and International Organisations a wide range of services including ICT services in support, infrastructure, operations and development as well as managing different contact centres for the key European Institutions, agencies and organisations across Europe.

We are currently seeking an experienced and dynamic KAFKA Software Engineer to join our team in Maastricht Office. 

Main Responsibilities

Mandatory: 

• Certification on Kafka like CCDAK (Confluent) or EX482 (Red Hat)

• Minimum 5 years of recent professional experience as Java software developer

• Minimum 3 years of recent professional experience with Spring Boot

• Minimum3 years of recent professional experience with Kafka

• Minimum2 years of recent professional experience with multi-tenancy management of Kafka

• Minimum1 year of recent professional experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Minimum3 years of recent professional experience with Linux for software development

Desirable:

• 1 year Professional experience with Scrum methodology and tools like Jira and BitBucket

• 1 Year Professional experience with message brokers (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)

• 1 year Professional experience with GitOps way of working

• 1 year Professional experience with Apache Camel

• 1 year Professional experience with writing software documentation

Other requirements (personal characteristics)

Mandatory:

• Capable of working in a multi-cultural team 

• Good team worker, positive and open minded, committed to getting a job done 

• Solution oriented, not afraid to speak their mind

• Hands-on approach

Successful Candidate

Background

SCB (Streaming Communication Bus) is being developed in the ‘Kafka in ACM’ project context, where the CPS (Common Platform Services) team is assigned to provide 

manpower to support the development and integration activities. As the CPS team is lacking manpower to provide sufficient support to the project, CPS seeks to hire the services of a Java software engineer with detailed knowledge of and experience with Kafka, who will setup, configure, code, and document the SCB product (which mainly contains Kafka) in conjunction with other members of the CPS team. The assignment will also require collaboration with other involved technical teams.

Educational requirements

Mandatory:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology, with a focus on Software Engineering

Language Requirements:

Mandatory

• The Tenderer shall confirm that the proposed candidate has an excellent command of the English language (Listening/Writing/Understanding) level - C1/B2/B2

About The Company

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Space, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at Serco | Europe

Why should you join Serco ?

• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.

We are diverse and inclusive organisation

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to supporting the needs of all our colleagues. It’s a mix of people from different backgrounds, experiences and opinion that keeps our culture strong and vibrant.

We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.

In the UK we are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader in the government’s scheme and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard; in Belgium we are partner of Diversicom and member of Charter der Vielfalt in Germany.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to The Serco Europe Recruitment Team

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