Confluent Consultant (Kafka & Data Streaming Specialist) - Contract - Melbourne

Urgent requirement of Confluent Consultant (Kafka & Data Streaming Specialist) - Contract - Melbourne

Requirements

Must Have :

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands-on experience with Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform
• Architecture & Design: Define topic strategy (naming, partitions, RF, retention/compaction), idempotency/ordering; size and configure Confluent clusters; plan DR using Cluster Linking; leverage Tiered Storage as needed.
• Build & Integration: Implement/tune producers & consumers; design Kafka Connect integrations (managed/self‑managed connectors, REST/File/JDBC/CDC); use Schema Registry for contracts and compatibility; optional ksqlDB for stream transformations.
• Security & Compliance: Enforce RBAC, API keys/service accounts, mTLS/OAuth/OIDC; manage secr...