About the job
Position: Hadoop Administrator
Location: Sunnyvale, CA / Austin, TX / Houston, TX / Palo Alto, CA
Employment Type: Full-time
We are seeking an experienced Hadoop Administrator to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in the implementation and administration of Hadoop infrastructure. You will be responsible for troubleshooting operational issues, optimizing system capacity, and understanding the fundamentals of memory, CPU, OS, storage, and networking.
Your expertise should include a solid understanding of Hadoop ecosystem components such as MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Spark, and Oozie. Familiarity with Hadoop Administration tools like MapR/HDP/Cloudera or Ambari is essential. Additionally, exposure to setting up authentication models such as AD/LDAP/Kerberos will be beneficial.
Proficiency in Shell scripting and exposure to Python will be advantageous. Knowledge of troubleshooting core Java applications is a plus. Experience with real-time execution engines like Spark, Storm, and Kafka is desirable. You should be well-versed in Linux systems and capable of installing, configuring, and fine-tuning MapR clusters.
The role also involves leading a Big Data administration team, both onsite and offshore, and facilitating Hadoop upgrades and troubleshooting.
