Hadoop Engineer

Job#: 3043115

Job Description:

Hadoop Engineer

Location: Plano, TX / Charlotte NC (hybrid)

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview

We are seeking a Hadoop Engineer to support NextGen Platforms built around Big Data Technologies. This role is involved in the full life cycle of an application as part of an agile development process. The position requires the ability to interact, develop, engineer, and communicate collaboratively at high technical levels with clients, development teams, vendors, and other partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise in managing Hadoop and Data Science Platform operations, with a focus on Cloudera Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, OpenShift, and Docker-Container Cluster Management and Administration.
• Manage platform operations across all environments, including upgrades, bug fixes, deployments, metrics and monitoring, disaster recovery, and incident, problem, and capacity management.
• Work on complex, major, or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise.
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the existing framework.
• Serve as a liaison between client partners and vendors in coordination with project managers to provide technical solutions.
• Analyze various Hadoop log files and work with compression, encoding, and file formats.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Hadoop Architecture, HDFS, Hadoop Cluster management, and the Hadoop Administrator's role.
• Expert level knowledge of Cloudera Hadoop components such as HDFS, Sentry, HBase, Kafka, Impala, SOLR, Hue, Spark, Hive, YARN, and Zookeeper.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux, databases (Sybase/SQL/Oracle), Java, Python, Perl, and Shell scripting.
• Experience with automation and DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, SVN, and Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of fully integrated AD/Kerberos authentication.
• Experience in setting up optimum cluster configurations and debugging YARN.
• Familiarity with Monitoring, Alerting, and Job Scheduling Systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloudera Admin or Developer Certification.
• Certification in Cloud, Docker-Container, or OpenShift Technologies.

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