Job Title: Kafka Engineer Location: Fully Remote Duration: Long-term contract Candidates Must Have: 1. Kafka 1. Java 1. Spring 1. AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, VPC, VPN, TGW); 1. RabbitMQ Job Description: • Minimum 10 years of IT experience • Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience within data engineering organization; • Experience designing and operating solutions with relational Databases (Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server); • Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision; • Familiar with the creation of different types of documentation like functional, process, test plan etc; • Experience in AWS MSK (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka); • Well-versed on MSK Connect and Kafka Connect for integration with RDBMS, using JDBC connectors; • Hands-on experience in Terraform; • Experience in primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, VPC, VPN, TGW); • Strong AWS skills; • Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments; • Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka; • Experience working with Apache Kafka, like designing, developing, and managing data streams, troubleshooting, internals, cluster design, optimization, monitoring, schema registry and schema evolution, REST API, and its many related components; • Extensive experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka; • In-depth knowledge of all the functionalities surrounding Kafka; • Excellent understanding of SQL and Python for data processing; • Understanding of Data Modeling concepts and RDBMS Database design; • Ability to work with a variety of platforms and application stacks; • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process; • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.