W2 Position: Sr. AWS Data Platform Engineer - Washington, DC

Overview

On Site
$50 - $55
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

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Sr. AWS Data Platform Engineer

Job Details

Role: Sr. AWS Data Platform Engineer

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: Long term

Mandatory Skills:

  • 12+ years of experience in data engineering, real-time streaming, or event-driven architectures.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect.
  • Experience in managing data flows with Apache NiFi and workflow orchestration with Apache Airflow.
  • Proficiency in managing MQ and other Pub/Sub messaging platforms and frameworks.
  • Experience with Flink, Spark Streaming, or similar frameworks for real-time processing.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, stream processing semantics, and event-driven microservices.
  • Expertise in cloud-native data infrastructure (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure), Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
  • Strong grasp of data governance, schema evolution, security, and compliance best practices.

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