Senior Hadoop Administrator - Associate

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Hadoop Administrator - Associate for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Alpharetta, GA.

Responsibilities:

• Commissioning and decommissioning of the nodes to/from Hadoop cluster.
• Implementing, managing, and administering the overall Hadoop infrastructure.
• Capacity planning and estimating the requirements for lowering or increasing the capacity of the Hadoop cluster.
• Monitoring the Hadoop cluster connectivity and performance of the cluster for application teams.
• Replicating huge amount data from one Hadoop cluster to another.
• Applying encryption to secure the data in the Hadoop cluster.
• Applying the configuration changes and testing the cluster in collaboration with the application teams and business users.
  
  

Required Skills:

• Expert in setting up Hadoop cluster from scratch and server maintenance.
• Sound knowledge of Hadoop services - HDFS, Hive, HBase, Impala, Hue, Ranger etc.
• Experience with Cloudera CDP Hadoop upgrade.
• Experience with access management and setting up user roles in Hadoop.
• Able to create and debug complex Unix shell scripts.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good team player.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Analyzing and troubleshooting the issues with the clusters.
• Set up and maintain appropriate infrastructure to maintain performance and data integrity.
• Experience with ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Apache Hadoop
• Ensuring appropriate monitoring & alerting of Elasticsearch cluster.
• Expert in networking and security settings to support network related pipelines.
• Good to have Ruby and/or Python, Unix and GIT Knowledge.
  
  

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/.

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