Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - DevOps & Cloud
The Focus Group · Sandton, South Africa ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Devops
- Experience
- 6+ years
Owns and evolves Kafka-based platforms, integrating Confluent Cloud with DevOps tooling and Linux systems to ensure secure, observable, and scalable data pipelines.
The Focus Group is seeking a senior Systems/Platform Engineer to own the evolution of multiple technology assets and lead the COEs related to them. The role requires extensive Kafka administration experience, strong DevOps skills, and deep Linux know-how.
You will drive security, observability, and cloud integration across Confluent Platform/Confluent Cloud environments. Ideal candidates will bring 6+ years in systems engineering, proficiency in Python/Bash, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/Ansible,