ACARA Jobs
Hadoop Administrator
Apply- ID: 549406
- Posted: 4/13/2025
- Location: San Antonio, TX
- Category: Admin - Administrative
- Job Type: Temporary
- Duration: 12 + Months
Description
Are you a Hadoop Administrator who is looking to join one of the top companies within the Energy and gas Industry?
Are you looking to further your career and grow?
Do you have experience in Cloudera?
If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!
Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work Remotely with our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?
Here's what you'd do:
- The Hadoop administrator is responsible for the care, maintenance, administration, and reliability of the Hadoop ecosystem.
- The role includes ensuring system security, stability, reliability, capacity planning, recoverability (protecting business data), and performance.
- In addition to providing new system and data management solution delivery to meet the enterprise's growing and evolving data demands.
- Hadoop administrator using Cloudera administers Cloudera technology and systems responsible for backup, recovery, architecture, performance tuning, security, auditing, metadata management, optimization, statistics, capacity planning, connectivity, and other data solutions of Hadoop systems.
- Hadoop administrator provides support and maintenance and its eco-systems, including HDFS, Yarn, Hive, LLAP, Druid, Impala, Spark, Kafka, HBase, and Cloudera Work Bench.
- Accountable for storage, performance tuning, and volume management of Hadoop clusters and MapReduce routines.
- Deploys Hadoop cluster, adds and removes nodes, keeps track of jobs, monitors critical parts of the cluster, configures name-node high availability, schedules and configures it, and takes backups.
- Installs and configures software, patches, and upgrades software as needed.
- Capacity planning and implementing new/upgraded hardware and software releases for storage infrastructure.
- Involves designing, capacity arrangement, cluster setup, performance fine-tuning, monitoring, structure planning, scaling, and administration.
- Communicates with other development, administrative, and business teams, including infrastructure, application, network, database, and business intelligence teams.
- Responsible for Data Lake and Data Warehousing design and development.
- Collaboration with various technical/non-technical resources, such as infrastructure and application teams, regarding project work, POCs (Proofs of Concept), and troubleshooting exercises.
- Configuring Hadoop security, specifically Kerberos integration, with the to implement.
- Create and maintain job and task scheduling and administration of employment.
- Responsible for data movement in and out of Hadoop clusters and data ingestion using Sqoop and Flume
- Review Hadoop environments and determine compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Data modeling, designing, and implementation of data based on recognized standards.
- Working as a key person for Vendor escalation.
- On-call rotation is needed to support a 24/7 environment and is also expected to work outside business hours to support corporate needs.
Here's what you'll get:
Pay: $60.57 / hr.
Hours: 40 hrs/Week.
Length: Contract (24 months).
Sound like a good fit?
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About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
Job Requirements
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems or Engineering or Computer Science.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a Hadoop production environment.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Cloudera.
- Minimum of 5 years experience with at least 4 of the following:
- Hadoop administration in Linux and virtual environments.
- Well-versed in installing & managing distributions of Hadoop (Cloudera).
- Hadoop ecosystem components, including HDFS, Yarn, Hive, LLAP, Druid, Impala, Spark, Kafka, HBase, and Cloudera Work Bench.
- Hadoop overall architecture.
- Troubleshooting Open Source technologies, including configuration management and deployment.
- Data Lake and Data Warehousing design and development.
- Reviewing existing DB and Hadoop infrastructure and determining areas of improvement.
- Implementing software lifecycle methodology to ensure supported release and roadmap adherence.
- Configuring high availability of name nodes.
- Scheduling and taking backups for the Hadoop ecosystem.
- Data movement in and out of Hadoop clusters.
- Hands-on scripting in a Linux environment.
- Project management concepts, tools (MS Project), and techniques.
- A record of working effectively with application and infrastructure teams.
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
- Ability to organize information, manage tasks, and use available tools to contribute to a team and the organization effectively.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. The Aleron companies welcome and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.