Job Description

Role Title: Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer

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Location: Sydney, NSW

Role Summary n

The Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer will design, build, operate and improve

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enterprise Kafka and event-streaming platforms across AWS and Kubernetes, including

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Amazon EKS. The role requires strong hands‑on Kafka administration, integration

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development, cloud‑native operations and production support experience.

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The role works closely with application, integration, cloud, security and operations

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teams to deliver reliable event‑driven solutions, resolve complex issues, automate

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repeatable tasks and support platform lifecycle, governance and service improvement

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activities.

Key Responsibilities n

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

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

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and operational matters.

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Mentor engineers, review technical work and promote consistent engineering and

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operational standards.

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Lead planning for upgrades, migrations, resilience improvements and platform

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modernisation.

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Communicate risks, dependencies,



options and recommendations clearly to

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technical and business stakeholders.

Key Skills & Experience Technical Experience n

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- Strong hands‑on experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform
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- Solid understanding of Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer
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- groups, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and MirrorMaker.
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- Experience developing Kafka producers, consumers and integration services
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- using Java, Spring Boot, Python or equivalent technologies.
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- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, including Docker,
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- Helm, storage, networking, ingress, secrets and identity integration.
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- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch,
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- Route 53 and core networking services.
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- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Jenkins,
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- Argo CD, Terraform or CloudFormation.
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- Robust Linux, networking, TLS, DNS, certificate and distributed‑systems
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- troubleshooting capability.
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- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch,
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- Dynatrace, Splunk or equivalent.
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Preferred Qualifications nn
- Public
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- Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related
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- AWS, Azure, ITIL, Kubernetes, Database, or relevant technology certifications.
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- Experience managing large‑scale enterprise or government technology
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- Experience with hybrid cloud, platform modernization, and operational
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📌 Senior Kafka Administrator / Developer (Kafka, AWS EKS) (Sydney)
🏢 Avance Consulting
📍 Sydney