- Location
- Sandton
- Type
- Contract
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- CareersPage
Description
Are you an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with a passion for building resilient, secure, and highly available event streaming platforms? We're looking for a talented professional to join a leading financial institution in Sandton, where you'll play a key role in evolving and maintaining enterprise technology assets that support critical business services.
This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a modern Kafka platform, influence engineering best practices, and work alongside high-performing technology teams delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
As a Senior Kafka Platform Engineer, you will:
- Own and drive the evolution, stability, and continuous improvement of enterprise technology assets.
- Lead the engineering and operational management of Kafka platforms across development, testing, and production environments.
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, performance, and availability through proactive monitoring and optimisation.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
- Implement and maintain Kafka security standards, including authentication, encryption, and access controls.
- Build and enhance platform observability using modern monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide expert-level support for critical platform services.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to deliver robust event-driven solutions.
- Drive engineering standards, governance, and best practices within the Centre of Excellence (CoE).
- Mentor team members and contribute to continuous platform innovation.
Required Experience
- 6+ years' experience in Systems or Platform Engineering.
- 4+ years' hands-on Kafka administration experience, preferably with Confluent Platform and/or Confluent Cloud.
- Strong experience supporting enterprise-scale distributed platforms.
- Proven experience working within DevOps and Agile environments.
Technical Skills
- Apache Kafka administration and platform management.
- Confluent Platform and/or Confluent Cloud.
- Linux administration and advanced troubleshooting.
- DevOps automation using Python and/or Bash.
- CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Cloud experience, preferably Microsoft Azure.
- Kafka security including TLS/SSL, SASL, ACLs, and authentication mechanisms.
- Monitoring and observability using tools such as:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Splunk
- Azure Monitor
If you're passionate about building secure, scalable, and highly available Kafka platforms while driving engineering excellence, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of a team shaping the future of enterprise technology.
