Hadoop Administration at SonSoft Inc. in Foster City, CA

Company Description

Sonsoft , Inc. is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Sonsoft Inc. is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

Job Description

• At least 4 years of experience in Implementation and Administration of Hadoop infrastructure

• At least 2 years of experience Architecting, Designing, Implementation and Administration of Hadoop infrastructure

• At least 2 years of experience in Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.

• Should be able to provide Consultancy to client / internal teams on which product/flavor is best for which situation/setup

• Operational expertise in troubleshooting , understanding of system’s capacity, bottlenecks, basics of memory, CPU, OS, storage, and networks

• Hadoop, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Mahout

• Hadoop Administration skills: Experience working in Cloudera Manager or Ambari, Ganglia, Nagios

• Experience in using Hadoop Schedulers - FIFO, Fair Scheduler, Capacity Scheduler

• Experience in Job Schedule Management - Oozie or Enterprise Schedulers like Control-M, Tivoli

• Good knowledge of Linux (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu)

• Experience in setting up Ad/LDAP/Kerberos Authentication models

• Experience in Data Encryption technique

Responsibilities:-

• Upgrades and Data Migrations

• Hadoop Ecosystem and Clusters maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes

• Perform administrative activities with Cloudera Manager/Ambari and tools like Ganglia, Nagios

• Setting up and maintaining Infrastructure and configuration for Hive, Pig and MapReduce

• Monitor Hadoop Cluster Availability, Connectivity and Security

• Setting up Linux users, groups, Kerberos principals and keys

• Aligning with the Systems engineering team in maintaining hardware and software environments required for Hadoop

• Software installation, configuration, patches and upgrades

• Working with data delivery teams to setup Hadoop application development environments

• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines

• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning

• Data modelling, Database backup and recovery

• Manage and review Hadoop log files

• File system management, Disk space management and monitoring (Nagios, Splunk etc)

• HDFS support and maintenance

• Planning of Back-up, High Availability and Disaster Recovery Infrastructure

• Diligently teaming with Infrastructure, Network, Database, Application and Business Intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability

• Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and Hadoop updates, patches and version upgrades

• Implementation of Strategic Operating model in line with best practices

• Point of Contact for Vendor escalations

• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment

• Analytical skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

• At least 7 years of experience within the Information Technologies.

Additional Information

** U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Note:-

1. This is a Full-Time Permanent job opportunity for you.
2. Only US Citizen, Green Card Holder, GC-EAD, H4-EAD & L2-EAD can apply.
3. No OPT-EAD, TN Visa & H1B Consultants please.
4. Please mention your Visa Status in your email or resume.