Who We're Looking For
An experienced engineer who knows distributed systems not just from documentation - but from production incidents, cluster tuning under load, and writing runbooks that people actually use.
👍English: upper-intermediate+
🌍 Location: Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, EU
This is a long-term project with an expected duration of 3 years.
At least 3 years of proven experience in:
• Administration and operation of distributed messaging platforms, including RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka;
• Operational management of Apache Spark workloads, including deployments, scalability, and monitoring;
• Troubleshooting and support for distributed infrastructures and critical data environments;
• Implementation of governance, security, and continuous monitoring practices for messaging and data platforms;
• Production of technical documentation, architecture, and operational procedures.
Proven experience of at least 2 years in:
• AMQP, topics, queues, partitions, offsets, delivery guarantees, and message ordering;
• Configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters and RabbitMQ environments in production;
• DataOps practices and automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python/Bash scripts);
• Advanced integration between messaging platforms and data pipelines
Proven experience of at least 1 (one) year in:
• Operation and administration of ingestion systems such as Debezium or Apache NiFi;
• Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized environments
• Certification in messaging administration.
What we offer
Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice
Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget
Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days)
Contract written under your country's law
We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing
🏢 About Bonapolia
Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US.
More at bonapolia.com
📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!
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