- 5+ years in Hadoop administration
- Solid experience in administration of large & complex Cloudera Hadoop environments
- Certification in Cloudera Hadoop administration
- Strong performance optimization skills with large Hadoop clusters
- Experience in On-call support (after hours), coordination with L1 teams / remote support teams
- Experience in issue escalation and resolution working with vendor support (Cloudera)
Key activities include:
- Monitoring and Administration activities of the Cloudera platform
- Install and deploy the Hadoop cluster, add and remove nodes
- Configure name-node, take backups, patch installations etc.
- Monitor tasks and all the critical parts of the cluster
- Maintenance and Operational activities
- Maintenance of file system/log files.
- Manage OS Patching, cluster parcels updates.
- Disaster recovery: Backup plan for accidental data deletion.
- Continual improvement: Performance optimization, automation and improvements
- Code deployments in Production environment