Confluent Kafka Engineer - 6 Month Contract + extensions Initial 6-Month Contract | Inner Suburbs, Melbourne | Iconic Australian Organisation An iconic Australian organisation is seeking an experienced

Confluent Kafka Engineer

to join its technology team on an initial 6-month contract.

You'll play a key role in building, operating and evolving an enterprise

event streaming platform , delivering secure, scalable and reliable real-time data solutions across a complex technology environment.

What you'll be doing

Design, build and enhance enterprise event streaming capabilities using

Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka .

Develop and support

Kafka Connect , event-driven integrations and reusable streaming patterns.

Establish engineering standards, governance controls and platform best practices.

Partner with architecture, security and delivery teams to implement event-driven solutions.

Build automation and self-service capabilities to improve platform reliability and developer experience.

Apply

Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE practices

across the environment.

Monitor and optimise platform performance, availability and capacity.

Support business-critical production environments, including incident and problem management.





Provide technical guidance to engineering and delivery teams.

What we're looking for

Strong commercial experience with

Confluent Cloud and/or Confluent Platform .

Deep knowledge of

Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and event-driven architecture .

Experience designing secure, scalable and highly available streaming platforms.

Strong cloud experience, ideally

GCP .

Experience with

Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform

or similar IaC tooling.

CI/CD experience using

GitLab CI

or equivalent.

Strong understanding of

Platform Engineering, automation and SRE practices .

Experience supporting business-critical production platforms.

Exposure to

Apache Flink, Confluent Cloud Flink or Kafka Streams

would be highly regarded.

Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

The prospect A great opportunity to join a major Australian organisation and work on a strategic, enterprise-scale event streaming platform within a complex technology environment.

Initial 6-month contract | Inner Suburbs, Melbourne | Potential for extension

For more information contact Melissa Haddad at

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📌 Confluent Kafka Engineer (Port Phillip City)
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