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TechClub Inc

Senior Kafka Developer with AWS

Remote

New york city, United states

Senior

Freelance

10-11-2025

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Skills

Data Governance Apache Kafka GitHub CI/CD Monitoring Jenkins Ansible Problem-solving Networking Architecture apache AWS AWS Cloud CI/CD Pipelines Kafka Terraform Prometheus Grafana GitHub Actions

Job Specifications

Developer - Senior Kafka Engineer (AWS)

• 5–8 years of experience designing, developing, and managing real-time data streaming solutions

• Strong expertise in Apache Kafka core components: brokers, topics, producers, consumers, partitions

• Experience with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry (Avro, JSON, Protobuf)

• Skilled in Kafka performance tuning, monitoring, and cluster management

• Familiarity with Confluent Platform or Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Kafka)

• Understanding of exactly-once semantics, consumer groups, and offset management

• Design, develop, and maintain Kafka-based streaming architectures for real-time data ingestion and processing

• Implement Kafka topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and connectors for various data sources and sinks

• Optimize Kafka clusters for performance, scalability, and reliability

• Integrate Kafka with AWS services such as EC2, MSK, S3, Lambda, and Kinesis

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and fine-tune Kafka clusters using tools like Confluent Control Center, Grafana, or Prometheus

• Collaborate with application teams to ensure seamless data streaming pipelines and robust message delivery guarantees

• Implement security, data governance, and schema management using Schema Registry and role-based access controls

• Participate in system architecture discussions, capacity planning, and disaster recovery setup

• Automate infrastructure setup and configuration using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools

• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and support teams in Kafka-related problem-solving

• Working experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, MSK, Glue

• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline

• Understanding of networking and security concepts in cloud environments: VPC, IAM, SSL

About the Company

TechClub renders avant-garde IT solutions to corporations. We provide exhaustive managed IT services that make us the perfect technology partners for our customers. TechClub is committed to designing critical information and maintaining a professional standard. We use cutting-edge digital approaches and maintain an open mindset to constantly innovate. Our objective is to guarantee customer satisfaction with our services. We are committed to providing post-implementation support and delivering expert IT solutions to over 50+ ... Know more