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.

Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv. Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

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