5+ years of experience administering any flavor of Linux.
3+ years of experience in architecting, administrating, configuring, installation, and maintenance of Open Source Big-data applications, with focused experience on MapR distribution
3+ years hands-on experience with supporting Hadoop ecosystem technologies
Source Big-data applications, with focused experience on MapR or CDP distribution.
Expertise in administration of MapR DB / Hive / HBase / Spark / Oozie / Kafka
Strong scripting skills (Bash or Python preferred)
Familiarity with commercial IT infrastructures including storage, networking, security, virtualization, and systems management.
Good understanding of High availability
Able to implement Hadoop Data Security using Groups/Roles
Implement and manage Cluster security.
Ability to troubleshoot problems and quickly resolve issues.
Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes
Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines
Screen cluster job performances and capacity planning
Monitor cluster connectivity and security.
Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and MapR updates, patches, version upgrades when required.
Integration with other Hadoop platforms
Familiarity with either Ansible, Puppet or Chef
Familiarity with Kubernetes
Proficiency in basic Java or Scala programming preferred but not required.
Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience
Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.