Senior Kafka Platform Engineer: Secure, Scalable & Automated

Datonomy Solutions; Emfuleni Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Datonomy Solutions seeks an experienced Technology Specialist – Kafka to design, administer, automate, secure, and optimise enterprise Kafka platforms supporting mission-critical banking applications. You will ensure stability, scalability, resilience and security while driving automation, DevOps practices and cloud adoption.

The role combines Kafka platform engineering with Linux administration, IaC, observability and cloud engineering to deliver highly available event streaming infrastructure

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Systems/Platform/Infrastructure Engineering.
• 4+ years hands-on Kafka administration.
• Experience supporting highly available distributed systems.
• Experience automating infrastructure and operational processes.
• Experience in DevOps environments.
• Banking or regulated industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain Kafka clusters.
• Administer Confluent Platform and/or Confluent Cloud environments.
• Manage brokers, topics, partitions, replication and consumer groups.
• Design highly available Kafka platforms across environments.
• Develop and maintain automation to reduce manual effort.
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability for Kafka platforms.

Skills

Kafka Administration

Linux Administration

DevOps Automation

IaC

Cloud Engineering

Observability

Security

Azure Cloud

CI/CD

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Datonomy Solutions seeks an experienced Technology Specialist – Kafka to design, administer, automate, secure, and optimise enterprise Kafka platforms supporting mission-critical banking applications. You will ensure stability, scalability, resilience and security while driving automation, DevOps practices and cloud adoption.

The role combines Kafka platform engineering with Linux administration, IaC, observability and cloud engineering to deliver highly available event streaming infrastructure