Senior Kafka Platform Engineer & Cloud Ops Lead

XPT Software Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia, Sydney, is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer to design, build, operate and improve enterprise Kafka platforms across AWS and Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS. You will work on brokers, topics, replication and integration services using Java, Spring Boot or Python.

The role requires strong hands-on Kafka administration, cloud-native operations and production support experience, with focus on reliability, security and scalable streaming architectures across

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication and consumer groups.
• Experience developing Kafka producers/consumers using Java, Spring Boot or Python.
• Kubernetes with AWS EKS, Docker, Helm, networking, secrets, identity integration.
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Experience with CI/CD and IaC tools like Jenkins, Argo CD, Terraform or CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Kafka platforms, including brokers, topics, partitions and replication.
• Design and develop Kafka producers/consumers and integration components.
• Deploy and manage Kafka on Kubernetes and EKS using Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, patching, backups and recovery.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, brokers, schemas and cloud infra.
• Implement monitoring and dashboards for broker health and throughput.
• Apply security controls including TLS, authentication, ACLs and secrets.

Skills

Kafka administration

Kafka Connect

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

Java

Python

CI/CD

Security & TLS

Monitoring & observability

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Jenkins

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

XPT Software Australia, Sydney, is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer to design, build, operate and improve enterprise Kafka platforms across AWS and Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS. You will work on brokers, topics, replication and integration services using Java, Spring Boot or Python.

The role requires strong hands-on Kafka administration, cloud-native operations and production support experience, with focus on reliability, security and scalable streaming architectures across