Hadoop Administrator

Charlotte, NC, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago

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We are looking for Hadoop Administrator for our client in Charlotte, NC

Job Title: Hadoop Administrator

Job Location: Charlotte, NC

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

The Hadoop Administrator is responsible for managing, monitoring, and optimizing MapR-based Hadoop clusters in a production, multi-tenant environment.
This role ensures high availability, performance, security, and compliance while supporting data engineering and analytics teams through efficient cluster operations and automation.

Responsibilities:

Manage, monitor, and optimize MapR-based Hadoop clusters in a production environment.
Perform daily cluster operations including health checks, performance tuning, capacity planning, and system upgrades.
Install, configure, patch, and upgrade MapR distributions and ecosystem tools.
Configure and support multi-tenant environments ensuring isolation, fair resource usage, and performance SLAs.
Manage YARN queues, ACLs, quotas, and tenant-specific security policies.
Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to onboard new tenants and align resource requirements.
Diagnose and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and failures across MapR-FS, YARN, Spark, Hive, Kafka, and related services.
Handle node failures, job failures, and cluster rebalancing while maintaining uptime.
Implement and manage monitoring, alerting, and reporting using tools such as MapR Control System, Grafana, Nagios, Prometheus, or similar.
Implement and manage security controls including Kerberos, SSL encryption, user and role management, and policy enforcement.
Ensure compliance with internal and external data governance and security standards.
Maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies using MapR snapshots, mirrors, and failover configurations.
Support 24/7 production availability and participate in on-call rotations.
Develop and maintain automation using Python, Shell scripting, or Ansible to streamline operations.
Improve cluster provisioning, monitoring, and deployment pipelines through automation.

Requirement/Must Have:

Hands-on experience as a Hadoop or MapR Administrator.
Strong knowledge of MapR-FS, MapR-DB, MapR Streams, YARN, Hive, Spark, and Kafka.
Experience managing high-availability production Hadoop clusters.
Proficiency in Linux administration.
Experience with multi-tenant Hadoop environments and resource governance.
Strong scripting, automation, and performance tuning skills.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Nagios, Prometheus, or MapR Control System.
Solid understanding of Hadoop security including Kerberos, SSL, ACLs, and directory integrations.

Should Have:

Experience migrating from MapR to other Hadoop distributions.
Knowledge of cloud-based big data services.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tools, or containerized big data workloads.

Skills:

Hadoop and MapR administration.
Linux system administration.
Automation and scripting.
Performance tuning and troubleshooting.
Security and compliance management.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Qualification And Education:

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

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Dice Id: 10516350
Position Id: NC_HDAP_0128
Posted 1 day ago

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