Job Type- Contract

Location- Sydney

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Role Summary

The Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer will design, build, operate and improve enterprise Kafka and event-streaming platforms across AWS and Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS. The role requires strong hands‑on Kafka administration, integration development, cloud‑native operations and production support experience.

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Experience

- Strong hands‑on experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in complex enterprise environments.
- Solid understanding of Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and MirrorMaker.
- Experience developing Kafka producers, consumers and integration services using Java, Spring Boot, Python or equivalent technologies.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, including Docker, Helm, storage, networking, ingress, secrets and identity integration.
- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53 and core networking services.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Robust Linux, networking, TLS, DNS, certificate and distributed‑systems troubleshooting capability.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk or equivalent.

Key Responsibilities

- Administer and support Kafka platforms, including brokers, topics, partitions, replication,



consumer groups, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and related services.
- Design and develop Kafka producers, consumers, stream‑processing components and reusable integration patterns using Java, Spring Boot, Python or similar technologies.
- Deploy, operate and improve Kafka and supporting components on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS using Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and approved cloud‑native patterns.
- Manage platform reliability, resilience, capacity, performance, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery and lifecycle activities across production and non‑production environments.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, brokers, connectors, schemas, networking, storage, certificates and cloud infrastructure.
- Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards for broker health, throughput, latency, replication, disk usage, consumer lag and connector health.
- Apply security and governance controls, including TLS, authentication, authorisation, ACLs, secrets, certificates, least‑privilege access and vulnerability remediation.
- Support incidents, problems, changes and releases, including root‑cause analysis, runbook improvement and automation of recurring operational tasks.
- Guide application teams on topic design, partitioning, message contracts, schema evolution, retries, dead‑letter handling, idempotency and supportability.
- Maintain architecture, configuration, operational, recovery and support documentation.

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