Senior Kafka Platform Engineer

Xpt Software Australia Pty Ltd; New South Wales; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xpt Software Australia Pty Ltd in Australia seeks a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer to 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,

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in large enterprises.
• Deep knowledge of brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Experience developing Kafka producers/consumers and integration services with Java, Spring Boot or Python.
• Strong Kubernetes and AWS (EKS) experience including Helm, CI/CD and GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Kafka platforms across production and non-production environments.
• Design and develop streaming components and integration patterns using Java, Spring Boot or Python.
• Deploy, operate and improve Kafka on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS with Helm and CI/CD tooling.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, patching, backup, recovery and lifecycle management.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for broker health, latency, and consumer lag.
• Provide security controls including TLS, authentication, authorization, ACLs and secrets.
• Guide application teams on topic design, partitioning and schema evolution.

Skills

Kafka administration

Cloud-native operations

Java

Spring Boot

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Networking

TLS/Certificates

Observability

Education

Degree in IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Docker

EKS

Jenkins

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Splunk

Job description

Xpt Software Australia Pty Ltd in Australia seeks a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer to 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,