AWS Kafka Architect

Job Title: AWS Kafka Architect

Work Location- NY, NY (Needs at least 1-2 days onsite)

Contract

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.