Hadoop Admin

Charlotte, VT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Name: Hadoop Admin

Location: Charlotte NC relocation can work

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for an experienced Hadoop Administrator (MapR) to manage and support our production-grade MapR Hadoop clusters. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience running mission critical multi-tenant Hadoop environments ensuring high availability performance and security across diverse workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Cluster Administration
Manage monitor and optimize MapR-based Hadoop clusters in a production environment.
Oversee daily operations including cluster health checks performance tuning capacity planning and system upgrades.
Perform installation configuration patching and version upgrades for MapR distributions and ecosystem tools.

Multi-Tenant Environment Management

Configure support and optimize multi-tenant setups ensuring isolation resource fairness and performance SLAs.

Manage YARN queues ACLs quotas and security policies per tenant requirements.

Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to onboard new tenants and align resource needs.

Performance & Troubleshooting

Diagnose and resolve cluster performance issues bottlenecks and failures across MapR FS YARN Spark Hive Kafka and related services.
Manage node failures job failures and cluster rebalancing while maintaining uptime.
Automate alerting monitoring and reporting using tools like MapR Control System (MCS) Grafana Nagios Prometheus or similar.

Security & Compliance

Implement and manage security features such as Kerberos Ranger/Sentry policies SSL encryption and user/role management.
Ensure compliance with internal and external standards for data governance and security.
Backup Disaster Recovery & High Availability
Maintain reliable backup and DR strategies using MapR snapshots mirrors and failover configurations.
Ensure 24/7 availability of production environments and participate in on-call rotation.

Automation & Scripting

Develop automation for operational tasks using Python Shell scripting or Ansible.
Streamline cluster provisioning monitoring and deployment pipelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

4 years of hands-on experience as a Hadoop/MapR Administrator.
Strong knowledge of MapR-FS MapR-DB MapR Streams YARN Hive Spark and Kafka.
Experience managing production clusters with high availability requirements.
Proficiency in Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
Expertise with multi-tenant Hadoop environments resource governance and user management.
Strong skills in shell scripting automation and performance tuning.
Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana Nagios Prometheus MapR MCS).
Understanding of Hadoop security (Kerberos SSL ACLs AD integration).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience migrating from MapR to other Hadoop distributions (Cloudera Hortonworks) a plus.
Knowledge of Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) big data services.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps tools or containerized big data workloads.

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Role Name: Hadoop Admin Location: Charlotte NC relocation can work JOB DESCRIPTION: We are looking for an experienced Hadoop Administrator (MapR) to manage and support our production-grade MapR Hadoop clusters. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience running mission critical multi-t...