Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator

Required Qualifications

5+ years in data/platform/infrastructure engineering, with 4+ years operating Apache Kafka in production.

Hands-on administration experience with Cloudera and Confluent Platform.

Production experience with AWS MSK (provisioning, configuration, IAM auth, networking).

Proven experience migrating Kafka workloads to the cloud with minimal disruption.

Strong Terraform and GitLab CI/CD experience for infrastructure automation.

Hands-on Datadog experience for monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.

Deep understanding of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, ISR, offsets, consumer groups, and delivery semantics.

Solid AWS fundamentals: VPC, security groups, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, PrivateLink.

Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills (Bash, Python).

Excellent communication and coordination skills to work across producer/consumer teams.