Platform 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. 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 AWS & DevOps 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 J-18808-Ljbffr