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Hadoop Administrator

  • Location: Charlotte, 28202
  • Salary: $70.32 - $77.67 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 13 days ago

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!

Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Position: Sr. Hadoop Administrator
Location: Charlotte, NC, Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN, Dallas, TX
Term: 9 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

We are seeking a Senior Hadoop Administrator to manage the Hadoop / MapR on cloud or on-premises Linux instances, including configuration, capacity planning, expansion, performance tuning and monitoring.
  • Work with data engineering team to support development and deployment of Spark and Hadoop jobs.
  • Work with end users to troubleshoot and resolve incidents with data accessibility.
  • Contribute to the architecture design of the cluster to support growing demands and requirements.
  • Contribute to planning and implementation of software and hardware upgrades with ability to utilize disaster recovery related to Hadoop platforms if needed.
  • Recommend and implement standards and best practices related to cluster administration using Kafka, HBase, Spark, Hive etc.
  • Research and recommend automated approaches to cluster administration. Utilize Yarn configuration in a multi-tenancy environment with Yarn capacity scheduler.
  • Act as Sr. person on the team in providing Hadoop Administration Services.
  • Develop new documentation, departmental technical procedures, and user guides.
  • Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversees creation to update and test the business continuation plan. 
Required Qualifications : Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Technologies, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or in a related position involving software engineering experience.
Specific skills required:
  • Experience with Big Data, Hadoop, MapR/Ezmeral Data Fabric, Hortonworks Data Platform, and YARN;
  • Experience working in Linux environments;
  • Experience with Hortonworks or Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster administration (not development);
  • Knowledge of industry standard Incident, Problem, Release, and Change Management processes;
  • Experience troubleshooting issues related to Hadoop Ecosystem components like Hive, Spark, Hbase;
  • Experience installing and maintaining Python Libraries;
  • Experience with environment and infrastructure integration; and
  • Capacity management experience.

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

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For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options.  Please see MatrixRes.com/Benefits for more information.

For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits would be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.