Trident Consulting · 2 days ago
Cloud Architect
NYC Metro Area
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$60/hr - $70/hr
10+ years expTrident Consulting is an award-winning IT/engineering staffing company specializing in placing high-quality technology professionals. They are seeking an AWS Kafka Architect to design and manage Kafka-based streaming data pipelines, integrate with AWS services, and ensure performance and scalability of Kafka clusters.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Information TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design and manage Amazon MSK/ Kafka-based streaming data pipelines
Configure and monitor Kafka clusters for performance and scalability
Integrate Kafka with AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, and S3
Implement security protocols, disaster recovery, and high availability
Use Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for infrastructure automation
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for real-time analytics and data pipelines
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience with AWS and Kafka/Amazon MSK
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields
Minimum 10+ years of industry experience
Experience with AWS MSK and/or Confluent Cloud
Experience with monitoring tools like Cloud Watch, Prometheus and Grafana
Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows
Proficiency in foundational AWS cloud services (ex. Cloud Watch, AWS EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, etc)
Design and manage Amazon MSK/ Kafka-based streaming data pipelines
Configure and monitor Kafka clusters for performance and scalability
Integrate Kafka with AWS services like EC2, EKS, Lambda, and S3
Implement security protocols, disaster recovery, and high availability
Use Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for infrastructure automation
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for real-time analytics and data pipelines
Excellent understanding of Kubernetes and containerization concepts
Good experience with AWS Cloud and its services
Working experience in Linux
Preferred
Programming, Scripting, and automation skills highly preferred (JAVA, APIs, Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Good to Have Skills : AWS Cloud Architecture
Window System Administration good to have
Company
Trident Consulting
Trident Consulting expertise in big data, AI & analytics, cloud, infrastructure, ERP, Java frameworks and technologies, Engineering and R&D.
51-200 employees
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