AWS Kafka - Jefferies Professional

Job Title: Kafka Admin/Developer Role Description: Job Title: Kafka Admin/Developer Location: Sarjapur, Bengaluru Hybrid Mode - 3 days WFO (Tues, Wed, Thurs) per week Shift Time: EMEA Overview: Platform Operations Engineer AWS & Kafka (Amazon MSK) Overview We re looking for an experienced Platform Operations Engineer to lead the administration and optimization of our Kafka-based data streaming infrastructure on AWS. This role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across our Amazon MSK clusters and supporting cloud services. You ll work closely with engineering and DevOps teams to maintain a secure, high-throughput event streaming environment that underpins key business applications and analytics platforms. Must-Have Qualities 10+ years of hands-on experience managing and administering Apache Kafka and/or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). 10+ years of professional experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, and VPC networking. Proven expertise in Kafka cluster setup, scaling, partitioning, replication, and monitoring. Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools especially Terraform. Solid understanding of Kafka security and data governance in cloud environments. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation scripting using Python, Bash, or similar languages. Skilled in troubleshooting distributed systems, caching architectures, and optimizing message throughput and latency. Effective communicator with experience collaborating across Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Data engineering teams. Nice-to-Have Qualities Familiarity with Kubernetes/EKS and containerized microservices deployments. Knowledge of Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams. Exposure to monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g., OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana). Experience with cross-region or multi-account AWS setups. AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional. Preferred Experience 10+ years managing enterprise-scale Kafka environments and AWS cloud infrastructure. Prior work in large-scale data platforms or high-availability, low-latency systems. Experience in capital markets companies. Background in performance tuning, cost optimization, and incident response for streaming platforms. Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.