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Platform Engineer - Kafka

icon building Company : The Oss Group
icon briefcase Job Type : Full Time
icon geo-alt Auckland, New Zealand

Job Description - Platform Engineer - Kafka


We're looking for an experienced Kafka Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team, supporting and evolving enterprise event streaming platforms across both on-premises Kafka and Confluent Cloud running on Kubernetes. You'll help design, build, migrate and optimise scalable, secure, and highly available streaming solutions in a hybrid environment.

You'll bring:



  • Strong experience administering and supporting Apache Kafka in on-premises environments

  • Hands-on experience with Confluent Cloud and Kubernetes

  • Knowledge of Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, KRaft/ZooKeeper, ACLs, RBAC, and security best practices

  • Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)

  • Strong troubleshooting skills, performance tuning experience, and a solid understanding of distributed systems


This is an excellent contract opportunity to work on modern event streaming platforms and cloud-native technologies within a collaborative engineering team.


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