Kafka Developer

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd Contract

Kafka Developer

Sydney, Australia Posted on 09/15/2026

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job Description

Role Summary

The Senior Kafka Administrator / Developerwill design, build, operate and improve enterprise Kafka and event-streamingplatforms across AWS and Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS. The role requiresstrong hands-on Kafka administration, integration development, cloud-nativeoperations and production support experience.

The role works closely with application,integration, cloud, security and operations teams to deliver reliableevent-driven solutions, resolve complex issues, automate repeatable tasks andsupport platform lifecycle, governance and service improvement activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Kafkaplatforms, including brokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups,Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and related services.
• Design and develop Kafkaproducers, consumers, stream-processing components and reusable integrationpatterns using Java, Spring Boot, Python or similar technologies.
• Deploy, operate and improveKafka and supporting components on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS using Helm, CI/CD,GitOps and approved cloud-native patterns.
• Manage platform reliability,resilience, capacity, performance, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery andlifecycle activities across production and non-production environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issuesacross applications, brokers, connectors, schemas, networking, storage,certificates and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement monitoring, alertingand dashboards for broker health, throughput, latency, replication, disk usage,consumer lag and connector health.
• Apply security and governancecontrols, including TLS, authentication, authorisation, ACLs, secrets,certificates, least-privilege access and vulnerability remediation.
• Support incidents, problems,changes and releases, including root-cause analysis, runbook improvement andautomation of recurring operational tasks.
• Guide application teams ontopic design, partitioning, message contracts, schema evolution, retries,dead-letter handling, idempotency and supportability.
• Maintain architecture,configuration, operational, recovery and support documentation.

Technical Leadership

• Act as the senior technicalpoint of contact for Kafka platform design, engineering and operationalmatters.
• Mentor engineers, reviewtechnical work and promote consistent engineering and operational standards.
• Lead planning for upgrades,migrations, resilience improvements and platform modernisation.
• Communicate risks,dependencies, options and recommendations clearly to technical and businessstakeholders.

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Experience

• Strong hands-on experienceadministering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in complex enterpriseenvironments.
• Solid understanding of Kafkabrokers, topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect,Schema Registry and MirrorMaker.
• Experience developing Kafkaproducers, consumers and integration services using Java, Spring Boot, Pythonor equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience withKubernetes and Amazon EKS, including Docker, Helm, storage, networking,ingress, secrets and identity integration.
• Working knowledge of AWSservices such as EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53 and core networkingservices.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOpsand Infrastructure as Code tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, Terraform orCloudFormation.
• Strong Linux, networking, TLS,DNS, certificate and distributed-systems troubleshooting capability.
• Experience with observabilitytools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, ComputerScience, or related discipline.
• Experience managing large-scale enterprise or governmenttechnology environments.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, platformmodernization, and operational transformation programs.