Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Technology/Domain Specialist II - Kafka (OVA5718)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

This is a 12 – month contract with our client in the banking sector

Drive the availability, security, and scalability of our enterprise event-streaming ecosystem. As a Senior Systems/Platform Engineer, you will own, automate, and manage our Kafka infrastructure—ensuring peak performance, robust observability, and seamless cloud integration.

Key Responsibilities

  • Kafka Platform Administration: Design, deploy, configure, and maintain production Kafka clusters (Confluent Platform and/or Confluent Cloud).
  • Automation & IaC: Provision, manage, and automate cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and Python/Bash scripting.
  • Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce end-to-end Kafka security controls, including TLS/SSL encryption, SASL authentication, and ACLs.
  • Observability & Performance: Build and optimize real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or Azure Monitor.
  • Linux Systems Engineering: Troubleshoot complex low-level Linux systems, network, and platform-level issues to ensure high availability and reliability.

Minimum Requirements

  • Systems Engineering: 6+ years of hands-on experience in Systems or Platform Engineering.
  • Kafka Expertise: 4+ years of direct, hands-on administration of Apache Kafka (preferably Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud).
  • Cloud & DevOps: Strong background in Azure cloud infrastructure alongside CI/CD workflows and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / Ansible).
  • Scripting: Advanced proficiency in Python or Bash.
  • Systems & Security: Deep Linux troubleshooting experience and solid expertise in Kafka security protocols (TLS/SSL, SASL, ACLs).
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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