Sr Java Developer - Kafka, CDC, DMS, AWS, RDS Experience - MST OR CST Time Zones

Sr Java Developer with Kafka Experience

10+ years

Remote position

NO Corp to Corp or IC/1099

Top 5 Technical Skills:

1. 10+ years of SE Engineering and App Dev
2. Java 21 with SpringBoot
3. Kafka and CDC
4. Aurora PostgreSQL
5. AWS (MSK, RDS Aurora, EC2/ECS, S3)
6. CI/CD (see complete list below)

Top 2 Soft Skills:

1. Must be a self-driven engineer
2. Strong disciplines around Software Development
   Java 21 and Spring Boot o Spring Cloud Stream for continuously running Kafka Data Streaming services o Spring Batch for nightly and on-demand jobs o Maven for building and dependency management o Spring Retry, JDBC, caching, and Actuator health endpoints
   Kafka and CDC processing
   o AWS MSK and Kafka consumer/producer troubleshooting o AWS DMS CDC JSON messages o Understanding insert, update, and delete before/after images o Consumer groups, offsets, partitions, ordering, retries, duplicates, lag, and replay o Lightweight balance-change events and full balance/error payloads
   Database and SQL
   o Aurora PostgreSQL o Oracle SQL o JDBC and transaction troubleshooting AWS operations o AWS MSK, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, EC2/ECS, AWS Batch, Event Bridge, ElasticCache/Redis, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, and AWS CLI o Starting, stopping, and validating streaming services and scheduled batch jobs o Coordinating Kafka resets, cache resets, database refreshes, and controlled service restarts
   CI/CD and development tooling o GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus, SonarQube, IntelliJ or VS Code, Git, and Maven o Reading application profiles, environment variables, SSM configuration, deployment templates, and logs
   

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