Kafka Administrator

Spatial Front, Inc

Kafka Administrator supporting the administration and improvement of Kafka infrastructure at Spatial Front, Inc. Focused on secure federal environments and PeopleSoft HCM systems.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeArlington • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheCyber SecurityETLKafkaLinuxUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
3+ years of systems, middleware, or platform administration experience, including at least 2 years supporting Apache Kafka or similar enterprise messaging and streaming platforms.
Hands-on experience administering on-premises Kafka environments on Linux, with familiarity supporting broader UNIX/Solaris infrastructure, including monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, and operational support.
Experience with Kafka administration best practices such as broker and topic management, replication and retention strategy, performance tuning, logging and monitoring, security configuration, and scripting or automation.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one; experience in secured federal or DoD environments preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

For more information, visit: http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html

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Hard Skills & Tools

Apache KafkaLinuxUNIXscriptingautomationmonitoringtroubleshootingperformance tuningsecurity configurationbroker management

Soft Skills

collaborationincident investigationproblem resolutionchange controlcapacity planningplatform reliabilityaudit readinesscommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Scienceactive Secret security clearance