Kafka Developer (AWS)

Title: Kafka Developer (AWS)
Location: Tampa FL Onsite from Day 1 (Relocation workable)

Job summary
Seeking a Kafka Developer with strong AWS experience to design build and operate high-throughput streaming pipelines on MSK and related AWS services. Youll own producers/consumers streaming apps cluster operations security and CI/CD while partnering with data engineers and architects to deliver resilient low-latency integrations.

Key responsibilities
Design implement and maintain Kafka producers/consumers and stream-processing apps (Java/Scala/Python).
Deploy manage and optimize Kafka clusters on AWS (MSK) including capacity planning partitioning replication and failover.
Build end-to-end streaming pipelines using Kafka Connect Kafka Streams (or Flink/Spark Streaming where applicable) and downstream sinks.
Implement and automate monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning; troubleshoot lag rebalance ISR and retention issues.
Enforce security best practices: IAM TLS encryption ACLs/authorizers secrets management.
Use IaC and CI/CD (Terraform/CloudFormation; Jenkins/GitLab CI) to provision and promote infra/app changes.
Collaborate with data engineers platform teams and solution architects to capture requirements and deliver robust streaming solutions.
Produce runbooks architecture diagrams and hand-off documentation.

Required skills/qualifications
5 8 years total software/data engineering; 3 years hands-on Kafka.
Deep knowledge of Kafka architecture: topics partitions brokers replication ISR consumer groups rebalancing retention/compaction.
Strong AWS: MSK EC2 S3 CloudWatch IAM VPC; plus networking fundamentals (SG/NACL PrivateLink).
Solid in one or more languages used with Kafka: Java (preferred) Scala or Python.
Kafka ecosystem: Kafka Connect (sink/source) Kafka Streams (or equivalent) Schema Registry/Avro/Protobuf REST Proxy.
Distributed systems fundamentals; building scalable fault-tolerant apps.
Familiarity with relational/NoSQL stores for persistence/integration.
Excellent problem-solving communication and team collaboration.

Thanks & Regards