AWS cloud engineer

Cloud EngineerLocation: Durham, NC/ Merrimack, NH/ Boston, MA/Providence, RIDuration: Long Term ContractThis is a devops role with Kafka. We need someone who can stand up these Kafka clusters internally. Kafka is more important then the devops piece of this.The Expertise You HaveWorking knowledge with implementing distributed, fault-tolerant and scalable software systems with a DevOps attitudeUnderstanding of Cloud computing concepts and familiarity with running applications in the CloudExcellent oral and written communication skillsBS in Computer Science or equivalent degree and work experienceAWS Certification is a plusThe Skills You BringYou have experience with developing and/or consuming REST Web Services and APIsYou have knowledge of Java/JEE and Spring FrameworkYou have knowledge of Confluent/Apache KafkaYou have knowledge of Tibco EMS is a plusYou have knowledge of Pivotal's Gemfire for high availability caching is a plusYou have knowledge of Kubernetes and/or AWS EKSYou deployed applications on Tomcat and Spring BootYou are familiar with the Agile development methodology