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



idempotency and supportability. /n · Maintain architecture, configuration, operational, recovery and support documentation. /n Technical Leadership /n · Act as the senior technical point of contact for Kafka platform design, engineering and operational matters. /n · Mentor engineers, review technical work and promote consistent engineering and operational standards. /n · Lead planning for upgrades, migrations, resilience improvements and platform modernisation. /n · Communicate risks, dependencies, options and recommendations clearly to technical and business stakeholders. /n /n

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

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- Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline. /n
- AWS, Azure, ITIL, Kubernetes, Database, or relevant technology certifications. /n
- Experience managing large-scale enterprise or government technology environments. /n
- Experience with hybrid cloud, platform modernization, and operational transformation programs. /n /n

📌 Kafka Developer (Sydney)
🏢 XPT Software Australia Pty
📍 Sydney