Hadoop Administrator

Ventures Unlimited • Bellevue, Washington, United States • 1w ago

Company Description

VUI since 2004 has been helping clients improve their business, environmental and social performance. We do this by applying innovative processes, market intelligence and fresh thinking.

We provide advice and consulting services at strategic, policy and operational levels, concentrating on three key areas:

Job Description

Role : Hadoop Administrator

Location : Bellevue, WA

Type : Full Time Permanent

Job Description :

7 years of professional experience supporting production medium to large scale Linux
environments.

5 years of professional experience working with Hadoop (HDFS & MapReduce) and related
technology stack.
Requirements:

Manage large scale Hadoop cluster environments, handling all Hadoop environment builds,
including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and
ongoing monitoring.
Evaluate and recommend systems software and hardware for the enterprise system including
capacity modeling.
Contribute to the evolving architecture of our storage service to meet changing
requirements for scaling, reliability, performance, manageability, and price.
Work with core production support personnel in IT and Engineering to automate deployment
and operation of the infrastructure. Manage, deploy and configure infrastructure with Puppet or other automation toolsets.
Ability to work with and as a member of the IT Operations group as required to refine our Production capabilities: testing, kernel issues, compatibility and deployment of new versions of custom software.
Identify hardware and software technical problems, storage and/or related system malfunctions.
Creation of metrics and measures of utilization and performance.
Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as
well as for storage infrastructure.
Responsible for monitoring the Linux community and report on important changes/enhancements to the team.
Ability to work well with a global team of highly motivated and skilled personnel -
interaction and dialog are requisites in this dynamic environment.
Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system
administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources, provide economies of scale, and simplify remote/global support issues.
Perform other work related duties as assigned.
Preferred:

Experience with complex networking infrastructure including firewalls, VLANs, and load
balancers.
Prior experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and workload mapping a
plus.
Excellent communication & team management skills
Good written and verbal skills & team skills
Strong problem solving skills & proactive attitude