Middleware Engineer - Kafka (Hybrid - Flexible Options)

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125K-145K Annually
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

We are made up of high-performing teams that meet in person to learn and collaborate as needed. This role is considered hybrid, which means you’ll be assigned to a Broadridge office and will work both on-site and remote.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and create reference architecture for Kafka Implementations.
  • Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
  • Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
  • Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
  • Create producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
  • Provide administration and operations support of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
  • Use automation tools like provisioning using BladeLogic, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins and GitLab.
  • Perform performance benchmarking, analysis and tuning.
  • Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestion in Kafka usage.
  • Providing Backup & Recovery and problem determination strategies for the projects.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot Kafka related issues - manage monitoring tools and fine tuning alerts on Splunk, Datadog, and APM.
  • Provide strategic vision in engineering solutions that support event driven architecture deployments

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years demonstrated proficiency and experience in design, implementation, monitoring, and troubleshooting Kafka messaging infrastructure.
  • Hands on experience on recovery in Kafka.
  • 2 or more years of experience in developing/customizing messaging related monitoring tools/utilities.
  • Good programming knowledge/experience with one or more languages (ex. Java, python)
  • Considerable experience in implementing Kerberos Security.
  • Support 24*7 Model and be available to support rotational on-call work
  • Competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.
  • Experience implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations.
  • High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
  • Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities
  • Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
  • Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness.
  • Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences.
  • Willingness to learn new technologies/tool and train your peers.
  • Proven track record to automate.

Compensation Range: The salary range for this position is between $125,000 - $145,000. Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidate's final salary including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education.
Bonus Eligibility: Bonus Eligible
Benefits Information: Please visit www.broadridgebenefits.com for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings.

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We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.

US applicants: Click here to view the EEOC "Know Your Rights" poster.

Disability Assistance

We recognize that ensuring our long-term success means creating an environment where everyone is welcome, where everyone's strengths are valued, and where everyone can perform at their best. Broadridge provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ethnic origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, and other protected characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

If you need assistance or would like to request reasonable accommodations during the application and/or hiring process, please contact us at 888-237-7769 or by sending an email to [email protected].

Broadridge Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Broadridge and has not been reviewed or approved by Broadridge.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is described as broad, with multiple medical plan options plus dental, vision, prescription coverage, and telehealth access. Preventive care is framed as fully covered in-network, alongside added supports like an employee assistance program and on-site wellness availability in some locations.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as meaningfully supportive via a 401(k) match structure that increases with tenure. Added financial support such as one-on-one financial counseling is also included as part of the broader rewards approach.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental support is presented as substantial, including up to nine weeks of paid new-parent salary continuation. Additional family-oriented programs like back-up care and dependent-care options are included in the benefits mix.

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The Company
HQ: New Hyde Park, NY
14,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), is a global fintech leader, delivering technology-driven solutions that drive digital transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. At Broadridge, we are committed to making a difference. Our unique culture is guided by the Service-Profit Chain—the idea that success is mutual, directly connecting employee engagement, client satisfaction, and the creation of stockholder value. We enable better financial lives by providing the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance and communications. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 14,000 associates in 21 countries.

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