Pretoria: Intermediate C# Developer with KAFKA

We are seeking a medium-level C# Developer with strong experience in modern cloud-native application development. The ideal candidate will have proven skills in microservices architecture , containerised deployments , and Azure/Kubernetes orchestration , as well as hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka . The role involves building and maintaining scalable, resilient services that integrate into a distributed financial-technology ecosystem. Required Skills & Experience 35 years C#/.NET Core development experience in production systems. Strong understanding of microservices principles (domain-driven design, bounded contexts, service-to-service communication). Proficiency in containerisation (Best practices, image optimisation, debugging containerised apps). Hands-on deployment experience with AKS or Kubernetes (RBAC, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, scaling strategies). Apache Kafka (production experience): Administering Kafka clusters Designing event-driven applications and event schemas Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana, Confluent Control Center, or similar) Handling data consistency and exactly-once/at-least-once semantics Experience with Azure cloud services : Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, artifacts) Azure Monitor / Application Insights Networking basics (VNETs, load balancers, firewalls) Azure Storage and Messaging (Event Hubs, Service Bus a plus) PostgreSQL experience (schema design, queries, performance tuning).