Sr. Kafka Engineer

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Broadridge is hiring a Sr. Kafka Engineer! As the Kafka Platform Director youll lead the strategy design and operations of large-scale event streaming solutions with Confluent Cloud and Kafka. Youll drive automation security and performance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments ensuring the platform is resilient scalable and future-ready. Partnering with cross-functional teams youll power real-time data streaming that fuels innovation and critical business insights.

Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design

• Architect design and implement Kafka-based solutions using Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform ensuring they are highly scalable resilient and future-proof.

• Provide technical leadership in designing event-driven architectures that integrate with on-prem systems and multiple cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP).

Platform Management

• Oversee administration and operational management of Confluent Platform components: Kafka brokers Schema Registry Kafka Connect ksqlDB and REST Proxy.

• Develop and maintain Kafka producers consumers and streams applications to support real-time data streaming use cases.

Deployment & Automation

• Lead deployments and configurations of Kafka topics partitions replication strategies in both on-prem and cloud setups.

• Automate provisioning deployment and maintenance tasks with Terraform Chef Ansible Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

• Implement robust monitoring alerting and observability frameworks using Splunk Datadog Prometheus or similar tools for both Confluent Cloud and on-prem clusters.

• Proactively troubleshoot Kafka clusters diagnose performance issues and conduct root cause analysis for complex distributed environments.

Performance & Capacity Planning

• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning to optimize Kafka clusters; ensure they can handle current and future data volumes.

• Define and maintain SLA/SLI metrics to track latency throughput and downtime.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure secure configuration of all Kafka and Confluent components implementing best practices for authentication (Kerberos/OAuth) encryption (SSL/TLS) and access control (RBAC).

• Collaborate with InfoSec teams to stay compliant with internal and industry regulations (GDPR SOC PCI etc.).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with DevOps Cloud Application and Infrastructure teams to define and align business requirements for data streaming solutions.

• Provide guidance and support during platform upgrades expansions and new feature rollouts.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with Confluent Platform releases and Kafka community innovations.

• Drive continuous improvement by recommending new tools frameworks and processes to enhance reliability and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 5 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka; at least 2 years focused on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.

• Deep knowledge of Kafka Connect Schema Registry Control Center ksqlDB and other Confluent components.

• Experience architecting and managing hybrid Kafka solutions in on-prem and cloud (AWS Azure GCP).

• Advanced understanding of event-driven architecture and the real-time data integration ecosystem.

• Strong programming/scripting skills (Java Python Scala) for Kafka-based application development and automation tasks.

DevOps & Automation

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation) for Kafka resource management in both cloud and on-prem.

• Familiarity with Chef Ansible or similar configuration management tools to automate deployments.

• Skilled in CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins) and version control (Git) for distributed systems.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Proven ability to monitor and troubleshoot large-scale distributed Kafka environments using Splunk Datadog Prometheus or similar tools.

• Experience with performance tuning and incident management to minimize downtime and data loss.

Security & Compliance

• Expertise in securing Kafka deployments including Kerberos and SSL configurations.

• Understanding of IAM best practices network security encryption and governance in hybrid environments.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated experience leading platform upgrades migrations and architecture reviews.

• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences (developers architects executives).

• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teamsproduct owners system engineers security and business stakeholders.

Education & Preferred Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience with container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.

Compensation Range:The salary range for this position is between $130000 - $160000 USD .Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidates final salary including but not limited to relevant experience skills and education.

Bonus Eligibility:Bonus Eligible

Benefits Information:Please visit for more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings

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