Role Title: Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer

Location: Sydney, NSW

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.

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.

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‑
- 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 & 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.
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- Maintain architecture, configuration, operational, recovery and support
- documentation.

Technical Leadership

Act as the senior technical point of contact for Kafka platform design, engineering

and operational matters.

Mentor engineers, review technical work and promote consistent engineering and

operational standards.

Lead planning for upgrades, migrations, resilience improvements and platform

modernisation.

Communicate risks, dependencies, options and recommendations clearly to

technical and business stakeholders.

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Experience

- Solid hands‑on experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform
- 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.
- Strong Linux, networking, TLS, DNS, certificate and distributed‑systems
- troubleshooting capability.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch,
- Dynatrace, Splunk or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

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

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📌 Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer (Kafka, AWS EKS) (Sydney)
🏢 Avance Consulting
📍 Sydney