ZEN196 - Apache Kafka Administrator

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Apache Kafka Administrator to join a high-performing middleware and integration

team supporting enterprise banking platforms. The successful candidate will administer, monitor and optimise Apache

Kafka environments, ensuring secure, reliable and high-performing event streaming services. The role focuses on

Kafka administration, broker management, security, troubleshooting and high availability while supporting enterprise

integration initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across enterprise environments.

• Configure and manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions and consumer groups.

• Monitor Kafka platform health, performance and capacity.

• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis of Kafka platform issues.

• Implement replication, high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

• Configure and maintain Kafka security using SSL, SASL and authentication mechanisms.

• Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and Kafka Streams implementations.

• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and operations teams.

• Support production incidents and platform upgrades.

• Produce technical documentation and operational procedures.

• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions.

• Ensure platform stability, scalability and performance.

Competencies

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.

• Strong production support capability.

• Ability to work within enterprise banking environments.

• Excellent documentation skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and strong attention to detail.

Package & Remuneration

• 5+ years' experience within Apache Kafka Administration, Middleware Administration or Event Streaming

• environments.

• Strong hands-on experience administering Apache Kafka, including Kafka Architecture, Broker Management,

• Consumer Groups, Replication, High Availability (HA), Security (SSL/SASL), Monitoring and Troubleshooting is

• mandatory.

• Experience supporting enterprise Kafka platforms, including performance tuning, log analysis, production support

• and platform optimisation, is mandatory.

• Experience implementing secure, scalable and resilient event streaming solutions within enterprise environments

• is mandatory.

• Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and Kafka Streams will be advantageous.

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, IBM MQ Integration, Event-Driven Architecture, ELK Stack and Dynatrace

• will be advantageous.

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or a related

• field.

• Relevant Apache Kafka, Confluent or cloud platform certifications will be advantageous.

General Information

• Contract: Open for contract and permanent

• Location: Sandton, Johannesburg

• Mode of Work: Hybrid – 3 Days per Week from Office