- Intial 6 months contract
- Seeking strong experience with Apache Kafka
- Flexible working arrangements
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.
- 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).
- 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.
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
