AWS Kafka Architect - New York, NY (Hybrid)

 Title: Principal/ AWS Kafka Architect

Location- NY, NY (Hybrid, 3 Days onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

 

Skills

Mandatory Skills: Kafka
Good to Have Skills: AWS Cloud Architecture

 

Job Description:

·        10+ years of experience with AWS and Kafka/Amazon MSK

·        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields

·        Minimum 10+ years of industry experience

·        Experience with AWS MSK and/or Confluent Cloud

·        Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana.

·        Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows.

·        Proficiency in foundational AWS cloud services (ex. Cloud Watch, AWS EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, etc).

·        Design and manage Amazon MSK/ Kafka-based streaming data pipelines.

·        Configure and monitor Kafka clusters for performance and scalability.

·        Integrate Kafka with AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, and S3.

·        Implement security protocols, disaster recovery, and high availability.

·        Use Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for infrastructure automation.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams for real-time analytics and data pipelines

·        Excellent understanding of Kubernetes and containerization concepts

·        Good experience with AWS Cloud and its services

·        Programming, Scripting, and automation skills highly preferred (JAVA, APIs, Python, Bash, PowerShell)

·        Working experience in Linux

·        Window System Administration is good to have.