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Job Title: Big Data Administrator - Hadoop

Location: Pleasanton, CA

Remote work allowed: Y / N: N – Onsite Only

Number of Positions: 3

Type of Hire: Consulting

Length of Contract: 24+ Months

Start Date: ASAP

Rate: Depends on Experience / Open

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for the day to day operation and support of Hadoop environments, which includes Hadoop Cluster infrastructure setup, software installation, upgrading/patching, monitoring, tuning/optimizing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and working with development team to install components (Hive, Pig, etc.) and manage MapReduce jobs.

·         Perform Hadoop capacity monitoring and short and long-term capacity planning in collaboration with development resources, system administrators and system architects.

·         Be accountable for maintaining the availability, performance, and continuity of client's Big Data (Hadoop) environments

·         Implement and maintain security according to best practices and in compliance with client's auditing requirements for Hadoop cluster infrastructure.

·         Implement DR strategy for Hadoop Distributions collaborating with storage and Unix teams.

·         Stay connected with open source development in Big Data Technology world, evaluate different tools and make recommendations.

Experience:

·         Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional work experience.

·         Minimum 5 years of experience in IT Development or Support teams.

·         Minimum of 2 year of Hadoop stack administration experience

·         Minimum 2 Years with (HDFS, MapReduce, Sqoop, Hive, Pig Scripting, Oozie workflow and HBASE ) with Cloudera Distribution.

·         Proven experience building and supporting Hadoop based technology.

·         Minimum of 3 years of advanced Linux experience.

·         Strong scripting experience on Linux in Java.

·         Define and develop client specific best practices around data management within a Hadoop environment.

·         Hands on experience on Core Java in Linux environment.

·         Work with functional team/ Frameworks team to understand requirements and translate them to technical specifications.

·         Minimum of 1 year of data analytics experience.

·         Strong SQL knowledge a must. Good to have advanced data warehousing knowledge.

·         Knowledge of one or more of the new database technologies would be useful. e.g.  MongoDB, etc.

·         Having worked on specialized systems such as fraud detection, advanced analytics, monitoring etc. would be beneficial.

·         Good written and verbal communication skills are required.

·         Cloudera certification.