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About the Role We are migrating a portfolio of Apache Kafka clusters from on-premises platforms to AWS MSK. We are looking for a senior, hands-on Kafka engineer to own day-to-day Kafka administration across both environments, drive the migration, and coordinate with producer and consumer application teams. Key Responsibilities • Own day-to-day Kafka administration across on-premises and cloud environments • Drive the migration of Kafka clusters from on-premises to AWS MSK • Coordinate with producer and consumer application teams for a smooth cutover • Act as the technical point of contact between platform and application teams Requirements • 10+ years in data/platform/infrastructure engineering, with 4+ years operating Apache Kafka in production • Hands-on administration experience with Cloudera and Confluent Platform • Production experience with AWS MSK (provisioning, configuration, IAM auth, networking) • Proven experience migrating Kafka workloads to the cloud with minimal disruption • Strong Terraform and GitLab CI/CD experience for infrastructure automation • Hands-on Datadog experience for monitoring, dashboards, and alerting • Deep understanding of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, ISR, offsets, consumer groups, and delivery semantics • Solid AWS fundamentals: VPC, security groups, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, PrivateLink • Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills (Bash, Python) • Excellent communication and coordination skills to work across producer/consumer teams