Senior Azure Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Azure Engineer to design and build app-to-app integration solutions using Azure Event Hub. This role centers on implementing event-driven, Kafka-style streaming architecture within the Azure ecosystem, so hands‑on Kafka experience (or Kafka‑equivalent messaging patterns) is essential even though the production platform is Event Hub.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain app-to-app integration pipelines using Azure Event Hub as the core messaging backbone.
• Apply Kafka concepts and patterns (topics/partitions, consumer groups, producer/consumer design, offset management) to Event Hub's Kafka‑compatible interface.
• Develop and optimize producer/consumer applications, primarily in Python.
• Work across the broader Azure ecosystem (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics) to build reliable, scalable integration solutions.
• Troubleshoot latency, throughput, and reliability issues in real-time streaming pipelines.
• Collaborate with application teams to define integration contracts, schemas, and event design standards.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and error‑handling strategies for event‑driven systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with strong hands‑on expertise in Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience implementing Kafka (or Kafka‑based architectures) — Event Hub's Kafka protocol experience is a strong plus.
• Strong programming background, particularly in Python (production‑grade code, not just scripting).
• Solid understanding of event‑driven architecture and app‑to‑app integration patterns.
• Experience with Azure Event Hub, Azure Functions, or similar Azure messaging/compute services.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code (Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep, etc.) is a plus.
• Strong debugging and performance‑tuning skills for distributed, real‑time systems.