Real-Time Kafka Streaming Architect

Zensar Technologies; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Zensar Technologies in Johannesburg is seeking a highly skilled Kafka Engineer to design, develop, implement, and support enterprise-scale real-time data streaming solutions using Apache Kafka. The role involves building scalable streaming platforms, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and supporting mission-critical data pipelines.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kafka components, Java/Scala/Python/Golang development, containers, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with real-time data streaming using Kafka.
• Experience with event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Proficient in Java/Scala/Python/Golang development and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain real-time data streaming solutions using Apache Kafka.
• Configure, deploy, and administer Kafka clusters in production environments.
• Develop Kafka Producers, Consumers, Streams, and Connectors.
• Implement event-driven architectures and messaging across applications.
• Monitor Kafka platform health, performance, and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to Kafka and data pipelines.
• Implement security controls including SSL, SASL, ACLs, and encryption.
• Optimize Kafka performance, partitioning, replication, and retention policies.
• Build data integration pipelines using Kafka Connect.
• Collaborate with DevOps, cloud, and data engineering teams.
• Automate deployment and administration using IaC and CI/CD practices.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Create technical documentation and operational procedures.

Skills

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Java/Scala/Python/Golang

Tools

Apache Kafka

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams

Schema Registry

ksqlDB

MirrorMaker

Docker

AWS

GCP

Grafana

ELK Stack

Splunk

Confluent Platform

Terraform

Job description

Zensar Technologies in Johannesburg is seeking a highly skilled Kafka Engineer to design, develop, implement, and support enterprise-scale real-time data streaming solutions using Apache Kafka. The role involves building scalable streaming platforms, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and supporting mission-critical data pipelines.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kafka components, Java/Scala/Python/Golang development, containers, and cloud platforms.