Hadoop Administrator

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Experience: 8 – 11 years

Location: SFO/ Houston


Primary Skills:

Set up production Hadoop clusters with optimum configurations
Drive automation of Hadoop deployments, cluster expansion and maintenance operations
Manage Hadoop cluster, monitoring alerts and notification
Deployment of upgrades, updates and patches
Provide 24x7 tier-3 troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services
Diagnosis of installation & configuration issues
Diagnosis of cluster management issues
Diagnosis of performance issues
Job scheduling, monitoring, debugging and troubleshooting
Monitoring and management of the cluster in all respects, notably availability, performance and security
File system management and monitoring
Data transfer between Hadoop and other data stores (incl. relational database)
Ingesting additional data sources into Hadoop in either streaming or batch mode
Commissioning and decommissioning worker nodes
Configuring the cluster to be rack-aware
Set up High Availability/Disaster Recovery environment
Debug/Troubleshoot environment failures/downtime
Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users
Set up security configurations in Hadoop
Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop Map Reduce routines
Manage and review Hadoop log files

Qualifications

Engineering Graduate, MCA, Masters/Post Graduates (preferably IT/ CS)

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