Kafka Engineer

Our client currently seeks a Kafka Engineer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract. This role is Hybrid (3 days a week in office based in Gauteng).

Essential – Primary Focus

• Hands-on Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform engineering and administration (brokers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry).

• Proven delivery of at least one on-premises to Confluent Cloud migration, including Cluster Linking and offset mapping.

• Confluent Cloud private networking (AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, VPC Peering) and hybrid routing.

• Terraform (incl. Confluent Terraform provider) and GitOps-based CI/CD automation.

• Kafka security: Kerberos/SASL, OAuth, mTLS, API Keys, RBAC and SSO.

Supporting Skills

• Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS fundamentals.

• Kafka monitoring and observability (metrics export, consumer lag, audit logging).

• Kafka client libraries (e.g. Java, Python, .NET) to support application squads.

• Scripting (Bash, Python).