Enterprise Kafka Cloud Migration Specialist

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd is seeking an experienced streaming architectures expert to drive large-scale Kafka and Confluent Cloud migrations. You will design stateful, secure, resilient streaming pipelines using Flink, Kafka, and cloud-native services, collaborating with architecture, security, and data teams.

The role emphasizes modernization of on-premises platforms to cloud, governance, and observability through Grafana, Prometheus, and Instana.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Kafka and Confluent Platform for enterprise migrations.
• Deep Flink knowledge including stateful processing, checkpointing and event-time.
• Experience migrating streaming platforms to cloud with security and governance.
• Proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD tooling for IaC and automation.
• Familiarity with Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale Kafka/Confluent Cloud migrations.
• Design secure, highly available streaming architectures in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with architecture, cloud, security and data teams on migration projects.

Skills

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Confluent Cloud

Apache Flink

Kafka migration tools

Schema Registry

Kafka Connect

ksqlDB

Data governance

AWS

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Monitoring: Grafana/Prometheus/Instana

Cloud networking security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Instana

Job description

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd is seeking an experienced streaming architectures expert to drive large-scale Kafka and Confluent Cloud migrations. You will design stateful, secure, resilient streaming pipelines using Flink, Kafka, and cloud-native services, collaborating with architecture, security, and data teams.

The role emphasizes modernization of on-premises platforms to cloud, governance, and observability through Grafana, Prometheus, and Instana.