Job Title: AWS Kafka Platform Engineer ( Configuration experience )

Work Location – Jersey City, NJ ( 5 days from office ) 

Contract

Job Description:

• 8+ 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.