Kafka Engineer

• Intial 6 months contract
• Seeking strong experience with Apache Kafka
• Flexible working arrangements

About the role:
We’re looking for a skilled Kafka Engineer to join our dynamic team and help build scalable, event-driven data solutions. In this hands-on role, you’ll design, implement, and support Apache Kafka-based architectures that power real-time business needs across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement event streaming solutions to meet various business needs.
• Collaborate with teams to apply integration best practices across services.
• Foster a culture of reliability, including defining SLAs, error budgets, and incident management processes.
• Conduct deep investigations into production incidents, and apply learnings to improve code and systems.
• Ensure platform scalability and future-readiness by proposing innovative solutions.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate cross-team changes and integrations.
• Contribute to observability best practices and support organization-wide reliability goals.

Required SkillsCore Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (including Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, kSQL DB, and Schema Registry).
• Experience with Apache Flink and event streaming patterns.
• Proficiency in stream processing and enterprise data integration.
• Experience in database interactions for data extraction, insertion, and updates.
• Familiarity with IAM protocols: OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP.
• Scripting and programming with Terraform, Kustomize, Bash, JavaScript, and Java.
• Performance tuning of Kafka-based solutions (Consumers, Producers, Topics, kSQL, Flink).

Bonus Skills

• Confluent certifications (Administration/Development).
• Experience with Confluent Kubernetes Operator.
• Development of custom Kafka connectors and Kafka Streams API applications.
• Understanding of resiliency patterns: load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking.
• Knowledge of networking protocols: TCP, HTTP/2, WebSockets.

How to Apply
If you are interested and possess the right experience, please apply now via the link below.
Contact: Alson Fernandes – (08) 9423 1403 - Job reference: 267341