Strong hands-on experience with AWS Glue for building and managing ETL/data integration pipelines.
Experience with Amazon S3 for scalable object storage, data lakes, lifecycle management, and access control.
Proficiency in Amazon EC2 for provisioning, configuring, and managing virtual servers and applications.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, application deployment, scaling, and cluster management (Amazon EKS is preferred).
Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka for building real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures, including topics, partitions, producers, consumers, and Kafka Connect.
Experience designing and implementing data pipelines integrating AWS services with Kafka.
Knowledge of containerization using Docker and CI/CD automation.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation).
Understanding of AWS IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and cloud security best practices.
Experience with monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of cloud and streaming applications.