Verifone is seeking a Database Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an early career role with a focus on Kafka, where you’ll be hands-on with day-to-day operations, reliability, tuning, automation, high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on prem and in AWS Cloud.
Requirements
- Operate and support Kafka clusters in MSK, and on-prem physical/virtual platforms
- Troubleshoot producer/consumer issues
- Manage Kafka Connect ecosystem, Debezium, KSQL, Schema Registry
- High availability, replication, backup and recovery strategies
- Kafka version upgrades in dev and production environments
- Support schema/contract patterns
- Monitor cluster health and performance
- Help with incident response and postmortems
- Support and improve centralized logging and search
- Build automation for provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance
- Implement and improve monitoring/alerting and dashboards
- Participate in on-call rotation and support production systems
- Document systems and operational procedures clearly
Benefits
- Diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment
- Opportunities to excel and contribute to the success of the company
- Access to leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners
- Competitive compensation and benefits package