Data Ops Senior - Data Platform | Rabat (Morocco)

Alten Maroc is defined by a deeply collaborative culture, focused on people, trust, and strong team support, with hands-on managers who guide and develop talent.
This environment is enhanced by a strong drive for innovation, encouraging creativity, initiative, and experimentation across projects.
A structured and disciplined organization ensures efficiency, rigor, and quality in engineering delivery.
Performance and ambition are part of the culture as well, supporting collective success while maintaining a positive and caring atmosphere.

Your goal will be to participate in the implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the Data Platform's data pipelines, within a 'Data Centric' architecture, to ensure the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of the data platforms, while contributing to automation, monitoring, and incident management.

You will be expected to:

• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of data pipelines
• Automate deployments and operational processes
• Monitor the performance of Data platforms
• Manage and resolve production incidents
• Actively participate in DevOps activities around Kafka, Kubernetes, and GCP
• Collaborate closely with development and infrastructure teams
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of Data platforms
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and optimization of existing solutions

Graduated with a Bac+5 (Master's degree) from an engineering school or equivalent university with a specialization in IT, or with equivalent significant experience.

Experience: Confirmed expertise (>7 years) in Apache Kafka.

Experience in mass retail is a plus.

Required skills:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Monitoring
• Apache Kafka (advanced expertise):
  • Partitioning, replication, compaction
  • Performance tuning
  • Topic and offset management
  • Security: TLS, SASL, ACL
  • Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
• Kubernetes:
  • Cluster creation and management
  • Application deployment
  • Performance monitoring and optimization
• DevOps: CI/CD, deployment automation
• Scripting: Bash, Python
• Relational databases (fundamental concepts)
• Security: best practices and access policies

Behavioral skills:

• Strong analytical and continuous improvement skills
• Autonomy and excellent time management
• Ability to step back and make suggestions
• Excellent written and oral communication (deliverables & reporting)
• Team spirit and cross-functional collaboration
• Mastery of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog)