Hadoop / Kafka Admin

09 Feb 2025

Vacancy expired!

Job Title: Hadoop or Kafka Admin

Location: Charlotte, NC /St louis MO/Denver CO/Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Description:
  • Administration, management, and tuning of Cloudera & Hadoop
  • Strong UNIX/Linux knowledge including the ability to understand the interaction between applications and the operating system and to provide recommendations and suggestions related to troubleshooting and performance improvement.
  • Experience administering a reasonably-sized Hadoop cluster (20+ nodes). Experience with the Cloudera distribution is preferred.
  • Good experience in maintaining Kafka platforms.
  • Collaborate with the infrastructure team to coordinate OS-level patching and to identify and solve hardware related issues
  • Cluster & Node Maintenance, Health Checks, Automation of Job Monitoring by creating alerts
  • Ability to create infrastructure capacity plans based on quantitative and qualitative data points.
  • Basic understanding of networking. No need for network administration or deep networking skills.
  • Team player with strong inter-personal skills. No room for grumpy prima donnas here.
  • Assist development team in identifying the root cause of slow performing jobs / queries (HDFS)
  • Work with 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot as necessary
  • Capacity Planning / Forecasting
  • Develop strategy to automate management and deployment processes (DevOps)
  • Deploying to all platform components
  • Planning and conducting platform upgrades
  • Work with development staff to ensure all components are ready for release / deployment
  • Limited configuration management including git merges, cutting release branches and general management of the codebase
Some knowledge of general JVM tuning

Thanks & Regards,

John Victor

Kaizen Technologies Inc.

Email: Victorj at kaizentek dot com

Phone : 732 dot 731 dot 1207

  • ID: #49096912
  • State: North Carolina Charlotte 43085 Charlotte USA
  • City: Charlotte
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-02-09
  • Deadline: 2023-04-09
  • Category: Et cetera