Kafka Specialist Jobs in South Africa

A contract, specialist-level Kafka Specialist opportunity is open in Sandton through Datonomy Solutions, paying R90,000–R110,000 per month. The specialist will design, administer, automate, secure and optimise enterprise Kafka platforms supporting mission-critical banking applications.

About the company and the work

Datonomy Solutions is an end-to-end provider of enterprise information management services, enterprise software solutions and custom developed specialised systems, built around connected value creation. The role keeps Kafka environments stable, scalable, resilient and secure while driving automation, DevOps practice and cloud adoption.

Role details and duties

Duties include Kafka platform administration such as installing, configuring, upgrading, patching and maintaining enterprise clusters, administering Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud, managing brokers, topics, partitions, replication and consumer groups, and optimising performance, throughput and latency. The specialist will also design highly available platforms, build automation with Infrastructure as Code, support Linux administration, design Kafka security with TLS/SSL, SASL and ACLs, support Azure cloud deployments, build monitoring with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk and Azure Monitor, and support production incidents and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 4+ years of hands-on Kafka administration.
• Enterprise production support experience, including highly available distributed systems.
• Experience automating infrastructure and operational processes, and working within DevOps environments.
• Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform / Confluent Cloud expertise, including broker administration, topic and partition management, replication, cluster upgrades, performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Automation skills in Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps and Git.
• Linux administration, shell scripting, performance tuning and system troubleshooting.
• Microsoft Azure, including networking, infrastructure, Azure Monitor and hybrid cloud environments.
• Kafka security skills in TLS/SSL, SASL, ACLs, certificates, encryption, authentication and authorisation.
• Monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, Azure Monitor, log analysis, alerting and performance monitoring.

Where to find and apply safely

The listing was posted on 30 October 2026 and is shown as expiring in 10 days from that date, reference 849. Apply only through the original CareerJunction listing linked from the Apply button on this page. Never pay a fee to apply.

Practical tips

Show your Kafka cluster ownership, Confluent experience, automation work and Azure deployments, with examples of incidents you resolved and platforms you made more stable or scalable.

How the process works

Applicants are invited to apply through the original listing, where the agency reviews suitability for the role.

Important information

This page is informational only and is not the employer. Banking or financial services experience, Confluent Cloud implementation, Kubernetes, Docker and SRE experience are listed as preferred, and Confluent and Azure certifications are listed as nice to have, so check the original advert for the latest details before applying.

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