Senior Hadoop Administrator - Hybrid Jacksonville

Hadoop Administrator
Must be local to Jacksonville - 2-3 days per week in office

The Hadoop Administrator administers database systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. This role is responsible for installations, upgrades, backups, and configuration, and maintains query language for established database systems. The Administrator designs and executes backup and recovery schemes, implements disaster recovery procedures, and works with end-users and project team members to understand and advise on database and query requirements and capabilities. This role is assigned to complex database systems and is relied upon to optimize database performance, configuration, access, and security, and to serve on project teams contributing database subject matter expertise.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure
• Align with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop, and to expand existing environments
• Work with data delivery teams to set up new Hadoop users including Linux users, Kerberos principals, and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig, and MapReduce access
• Perform cluster maintenance and node creation/removal using tools such as Ganglia, Nagios, Cloudera Manager Enterprise, Dell OpenManage, and similar
• Performance tune Hadoop clusters and MapReduce routines, including Spark performance tuning
• Screen Hadoop cluster job performance and support capacity planning
• Monitor Hadoop cluster connectivity and security
• Manage and review Hadoop log files
• File system management and monitoring
• HDFS support and maintenance
• Provide cluster support across all data domains for data engineering jobs and warehouse queries, both on-premises and in the cloud
• Support installation and proof-of-concept (POC) evaluation for new tools
• Team closely with infrastructure, network, database, application, and business intelligence teams to ensure high data quality and availability
• Collaborate with application teams to install OS and Hadoop updates, patches, and version upgrades as needed
• Serve as point of contact for vendor escalation

DBA Responsibilities Performed by This Role

• Data modeling, design, and implementation based on recognized standards
• Software installation and configuration
• Database backup and recovery
• Database connectivity and security
• Performance monitoring and tuning
• Disk space management
• Software patches and upgrades
• Automation of manual tasks

Tools & Technical Skills

• Linux
• Toad, Starburst, Spark, Hadoop, S3, Nifi
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or equivalent)
• SQL
• Certification from AWS, Snowflake, Azure, or equivalent preferred

Experience

• 3-5 years of DBA experience
• 5-8 years of Hadoop Administration experience

Required Education
Related Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field or relevant work experience

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