Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator- Only W2

St. Louis, MO, US • Posted 10 hours ago • Updated 28 minutes ago
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Skills

  • Hadoop administration

Summary

Position: Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator

Location: St. Louis, MO (Onsite)

W2 Position

Name

Required

Hadoop Administration

No

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator with 10+ years of hands-on experience in managing large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Hadoop ecosystem, and Kafka administration, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of enterprise data platforms.

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Key Responsibilities

Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS)

Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Administer core AWS services: EC2, S3, EMR, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda.

Implement automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

Optimize cost, performance, and reliability of cloud environments.

Develop disaster recovery and backup strategies.

Big Data Platform Administration (Hadoop)

Install, configure, tune, and maintain Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark).

Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity planning.

Troubleshoot cluster issues and ensure high availability using HA configurations (NameNode HA, etc.).

Manage data ingestion and processing workflows.

Streaming Platform Administration (Kafka)

Install, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters.

Ensure high throughput, low latency, and fault-tolerant streaming systems.

Manage topics, partitions, brokers, and retention policies.

Perform Kafka cluster scaling, upgrades, and performance tuning.

Implement monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Confluent Control Center.

System Operations & Monitoring

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for all systems.

Conduct root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Ensure system security, access controls, and compliance standards.

Maintain detailed documentation and operational runbooks.

Automation & DevOps

Build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform deployments.

Automate routine administrative tasks using scripting (Python, Shell, etc.).

Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams for platform improvements.

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Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience

Minimum 10+ years of experience in system administration, with at least 5+ years in big data and cloud environments.

Proven experience managing large-scale Hadoop clusters and Kafka environments.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud platform.

Agentic AI experience

Technical Skills

AWS services: AWS Administration, EC2, S3, EMR, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda

Big Data : Administration, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Spark,

Kafka Administration

Years of Experience: 14.00 Years of Experience

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  • Dice Id: 91091604
  • Position Id: 2026-4551
  • Posted 10 hours ago
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