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The ideal candidate brings strong Kafka administration and troubleshooting expertise, proficiency in scripting, and a disciplined operational approach, along with experience supporting highly secure, compliance-driven networks.\nWork Location: On-site in Arlington, VA\nKey Responsibilities\nAdminister, monitor, and sustain Apache Kafka infrastructure supporting PeopleSoft HCM and related enterprise integrations in a secure, on-premises environment.\nInstall, configure, patch, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot Kafka brokers, clusters, topics, partitions, and supporting components across Linux and UNIX/Solaris-based environments.\nManage topic provisioning, replication, retention, consumer groups, access controls, certificates, and secure connectivity in accordance with enterprise security and operational requirements.\nDevelop and maintain scripts, automations, runbooks, and SOPs to improve platform reliability, reduce manual effort, and support repeatable administration.\nMonitor cluster health, throughput, latency, consumer lag, disk utilization, JVM performance, logs, and alerts; investigate incidents and coordinate timely resolution.\nSupport platform hardening, audit readiness, change control, and compliance with security requirements in highly secured or DISA-aligned network environments.\nSupport high availability, backup and recovery, capacity planning, failover readiness, and environment support across development, test, and production.\nCollaborate with application, middleware, ETL, database, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to support data movement, integration patterns, and stable operations.\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.\n3+ years of systems, middleware, or platform administration experience, including at least 2 years supporting Apache Kafka or similar enterprise messaging and streaming platforms.\nHands-on experience administering on-premises Kafka environments on Linux, with familiarity supporting broader UNIX/Solaris infrastructure, including monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, and operational support.\nExperience 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.\nMust be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one; 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