Kafka Systems Administrator – On-Prem & Secured

Spatial Front, Inc; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spatial Front, Inc. seeks a Kafka Administrator to sustain enterprise Kafka in a secure, on‑premises environment, focusing on PeopleSoft HCM integrations. The role requires strong Kafka administration, scripting, and a disciplined operational approach in a federal setting.

On-site in Arlington, VA with potential hybrid arrangements; U.S. Citizenship and an active Secret clearance (or ability to obtain) are required. Equal opportunity employer welcoming qualified applicants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/IS/Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of systems, middleware, or platform administration experience, including at least 2 years with Apache Kafka or similar enterprise messaging systems.
• Experience administering on-prem Kafka on Linux with UNIX/Solaris familiarity, including monitoring, patching, and operational support.
• Kafka best practices: broker/topic management, replication/retention, performance tuning, logging, security, and automation.
• U.S. Citizen with active Secret clearance or ability to obtain one; DoD/federal environment experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and sustain Apache Kafka infrastructure supporting PeopleSoft HCM and enterprise integrations in a secure, on-premises environment.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot Kafka brokers, clusters, topics, partitions, and components across Linux and UNIX/Solaris.
• Manage topic provisioning, replication, retention, consumer groups, access controls, certificates, and secure connectivity per security requirements.
• Develop scripts, automations, runbooks, and SOPs to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
• Monitor cluster health, throughput, latency, consumer lag, disk usage, JVM performance, logs, and alerts; investigate incidents and coordinate resolution.
• Support platform hardening, audit readiness, change control, and compliance in secured networks.
• Support high availability, backups, capacity planning, and failover across development, test, production.
• Collaborate with application, middleware, ETL, database, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams for data movement and stable operations.

Skills

Kafka Administration

Linux

Unix/Solaris

Scripting

Security Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Spatial Front, Inc. seeks a Kafka Administrator to sustain enterprise Kafka in a secure, on‑premises environment, focusing on PeopleSoft HCM integrations. The role requires strong Kafka administration, scripting, and a disciplined operational approach in a federal setting.

On-site in Arlington, VA with potential hybrid arrangements; U.S. Citizenship and an active Secret clearance (or ability to obtain) are required. Equal opportunity employer welcoming qualified applicants.