AWS Kafka Architect

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 good to have.

Skills

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