
Application Operations Engineer, Kafka, Chronos
Fiserv
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berkeley Heights • New Jersey • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $144,000 per year
About the role
- Participate in core production management functions including incident, change, and problem management—working closely with cross‑functional teams for metrics-based tracking, planning, risk mitigation, and certification support for top-tier clients.
- Support Kafka clusters, topics, consumer groups, and message flows to ensure high availability and consistent data processing across production systems.
- Oversee and troubleshoot Chronos job scheduling workflows, ensuring SLA adherence, timely batch execution, and automated recovery handling for failed tasks.
- Implement plan reviews and submit changes that improve platform resiliency, change hygiene, and operational success, particularly for Kafka and Chronos‑driven workloads.
- Collaborate with production assurance teams to maintain production run books, change registers, automations, improvements, and conduct detailed impact/root-cause analysis for issues involving data streaming or scheduling components.
- Provide production support for innovative, high‑quality, large-scale financial solutions, working alongside industry-leading engineering and operations talent.
- Perform proactive monitoring across your environment using tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Moogsoft—including alerts and dashboards to track Kafka lag, consumer health, broker performance, and Chronos job status.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working in an enterprise IT environment.
- 4+ years of experience in Unix and Windows, scheduling tools.
- 4+ years of experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana and Moog Soft.
- 4+ years of experience with incidents, change and problem management and ticketing tools like Service Now, Remedy, CA Service Desk.
- 3+ years of experience in Kafka, and Chronos.
- 3+ years of experience in production management, application/platform monitoring, on call schedule.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education, military, and work experience.
- Knowledge of ITIL frameworks and best practices.
- Experience with automation and scripting languages.
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with ARO, PCF, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- Experience using versioning control tools like MS Visual Source Safe (VSS), Git, and Bitbucket.
Benefits
- Fuel Your Life program to support your physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being.
- Paid holidays and generous time away policies.
- No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs.
- Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points redeemable for rewards.
- Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network.
- Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
- Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Tuition assistance and reimbursement program.
- Paid parental, caregiver, and military leave.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
KafkaChronosUnixWindowsmonitoring toolsautomationscripting languagesproduction managementapplication monitoringITIL
Soft Skills
analytical skillstroubleshooting skillscollaborationrisk mitigationplanningcommunication