Senior Platform Engineer (Kafka/Flink)

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Job Title
Senior Platform Engineer (Kafka/Flink)

About the role:

This role supports Fiserv's Global Kafka Event Streaming Services platform, focusing on the engineering, automation, and operation of highly scalable, secure, and highly available real-time streaming infrastructure. The engineer will design and operate Kafka and Apache Flink platforms across cloud and on-prem environments, enable CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and partner closely with application teams and architects to support mission-critical, low-latency event streaming workloads.

What you'll do:

• Design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kafka and Flink clusters in Cloud or On-Prem environments, on both VM's and Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless integration and automation of Event Streaming services.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Monitor and optimize Kafka and Flink infrastructure performance.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to build & support Event Streaming solutions while leveraging tools such as Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Flink, Snowflake, Streams Replication Manager (Mirror Maker 2.0) etc.
• Ensure observability through monitoring tools, like Grafana, Moogsoft and Dynatrace, to visualize system health and performance metrics. Evaluate business requirements, functional and technical.
• Develop and document technical and non-technical infrastructure related processes.
• Work with key internal and external stakeholders to create a comprehensive roadmap for technology products.
• Review and implement processes, procedures and policies for product engineering and operations.

Experience you'll need to have:

• 6+ years of with one or multiple Middleware, Messaging, Streaming and API Management Products.
• 3+ years with containerization of middleware products.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS, Azure, PCF and Kubernetes platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in Automation for IaaC platform such as but not limited to Chef, Puppet, Spacewalk etc.
• 3+ years of experience with multiple scripting and programming languages such as Python, Perl, Shell, PowerShell etc.
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure automation and orchestration using Rundeck, Ansible, and Terraform, HP/Microfocus, Splunk, BMC etc.
• Good understanding of infrastructure technologies like Linux OS, Active Directory domains, load balancing, gateways, firewalls, authentication/authorization, certificates, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a relevant field, and/or equivalent military experience

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience in infrastructure topologies.

How you'll work:

• This role is on-site position. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences helps you with your overall onboarding experience and lead to stronger productivity.
• This role requires use of a computer and audio equipment.
• Travel may be required on an as-needed basis, depending on business priorities, project demands, or client engagements.
• Participate in on-call group on a rotation basis for supporting business operations, nationally and internationally.

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Salary Range
$110,000.00 - $186,000.00

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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For incentive eligible associates, the successful candidate is eligible for an annual incentive opportunity which may be delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards in the Company's sole discretion.

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