Sr Java Developer with Kafka 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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