Job Description :
Description:

Our client, a leader in the payments industry, has an opening for a Hadoop Administrator to join their team.

This is a 12 months contract with potential extensions in Foster City, CA / Austin, TX.

Must have skills
3+ yrs. hands-on administration experience on Large Distributed Hadoop System on Linux / Technical Knowledge on YARN, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Pig and Hive / Hands-on Experience as a Linux Sys Admin

Nice to have skills
Knowledge on Spark and Kafka is a plus / Hadoop Certification is preferred

Roles and responsibilities
Hadoop cluster set up, performance fine-tuning, monitoring and administration


Job Description:

Person will be responsible to work as part of 24x7 shifts (US hours) to provide Hadoop Platform Support and Perform Adminstrative on Production Hadoop clusters.


Skill Requirements:
Minimum 3 yrs. hands-on experience on Large Distributed Hadoop System on Linux.
Strong Technical Knowledge on Hadoop Eco System such as YARN, MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Zookeeper, Pig and Hive.
Hands on experience in Hadoop cluster set up, performance fine-tuning, monitoring and administration.
Hands-on Experience as a Linux Sys Admin
Knowledge on Spark and Kafka is a plus.
Hadoop Certification is preferred