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-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.

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 · 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. · Solid 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 - Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.

- AWS, Azure, ITIL, Kubernetes, Database, or relevant technology certifications.
- Experience managing large-scale enterprise or government technology environments.
- Experience with hybrid cloud, platform modernization, and operational transformation programs.

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