Confluent Kafka Engineer

Confluent Kafka Engineer - 6 Month Contract + extensions

Initial 6-Month Contract | Inner Suburbs, Melbourne | Iconic Australian Organisation
An iconic Australian organisation is seeking an experienced Confluent Kafka Engineer to join its technology team on an initial 6-month contract.
You'll play a key role in building, operating and evolving an enterprise event streaming platform, delivering secure, scalable and reliable real-time data solutions across a complex technology environment.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build and enhance enterprise event streaming capabilities using Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka.
• Develop and support Kafka Connect, event-driven integrations and reusable streaming patterns.
• Establish engineering standards, governance controls and platform best practices.
• Partner with architecture, security and delivery teams to implement event-driven solutions.
• Build automation and self-service capabilities to improve platform reliability and developer experience.
• Apply Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE practices across the environment.
• Monitor and optimise platform performance, availability and capacity.
• Support business-critical production environments, including incident and problem management.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering and delivery teams.

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial experience with Confluent Cloud and/or Confluent Platform.
• Deep knowledge of Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and event-driven architecture.
• Experience designing secure, scalable and highly available streaming platforms.
• Strong cloud experience, ideally GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• CI/CD experience using GitLab CI or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Platform Engineering, automation and SRE practices.
• Experience supporting business-critical production platforms.
• Exposure to Apache Flink, Confluent Cloud Flink or Kafka Streams would be highly regarded.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

The opportunity

A great opportunity to join a major Australian organisation and work on a strategic, enterprise-scale event streaming platform within a complex technology environment.
Initial 6-month contract | Inner Suburbs, Melbourne | Potential for extension