AWS Network Engineer

We are seeking a hands-on Kafka Platform Engineer to support and scale our enterprise event-driven architecture running on Amazon MSK within AWS for onsite contract opportunity in Cincinnati OH

This role will own Kafka infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence across a hybrid cloud ecosystem. Core Responsibilities

Kafka Platform Ownership

• Operate and support Amazon MSK in production
• Design and manage multi-AZ / multi-region Kafka architectures for high availability
• Topic design, partitioning strategy, retention tuning, and capacity planning
• Troubleshoot consumer lag, rebalancing, broker performance, and throughput bottlenecks
• Manage Schema Registry and enforce schema governance

Kafka Connect & Integration

• Deploy and manage Kafka Connect clusters
• Configure and troubleshoot source/sink connectors
• Support real-time integrations into Snowflake and other enterprise systems

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Advanced)

• Build and maintain Terraform modules for MSK, networking, IAM, security groups, and supporting AWS services
• Deep understanding of Terraform lifecycle meta-arguments, state management, modules, and remote backends
• Automate environment provisioning across dev, test, and prod

• Strong understanding of AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM)
• Experience supporting production workloads in AWS
• CI/CD pipeline integration for infrastructure and Kafka deployments
• Monitoring and observability (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Dynatrace, or similar)

Security & Governance

• Kafka ACLs, IAM integration, encryption, secrets management
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments

What We Are NOT Looking For

• Application developers who have only produced/consumed messages
• Pure DevOps engineers without deep Kafka experience
• Theoretical knowledge without production ownership