Hiring: Data Specialist Company: Spatial Front, Inc Location: Arlington, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 07:38:45 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Compliance, ETL, Kafka, Linux, SSL, TLS About the job Experience: •3+ years of systems, middleware, data platform, or integration support experience, including hands-on experience supporting Apache Kafka or similar enterprise messaging, streaming, or data integration platforms. Required Skills: •Administer, monitor, and sustain Apache Kafka infrastructure and related data platform components supporting PeopleSoft HCM and enterprise integrations in a secured, on-premises environment. •Install, configure, patch, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot Kafka brokers, clusters, topics, partitions, and supporting data services across Linux and UNIX/Solaris-based environments. •Manage topic provisioning, replication, retention, consumer groups, access controls, certificates, secure connectivity, and core data flow configurations in accordance with enterprise security and operational requirements. •Develop and maintain scripts, automations, runbooks, SOPs, and operational procedures to improve platform reliability, reduce manual effort, and support repeatable data operations administration. •Monitor cluster health, throughput, latency, consumer lag, disk utilization, JVM performance, logs, alerts, and related data jobs or interfaces; 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 data environments. •Partner cross-functionally with application, middleware, ETL, database, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to support data movement, integration patterns, operational readiness, and stable production support. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. •Hands-on experience administering on-premises Kafka environments on Linux, with familiarity supporting broader UNIX/Solaris infrastructure, including monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, and operational support in enterprise data environments. •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. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!