Hadoop Admin

**Introduction**
As a Service Delivery Specialist, you are the face of IBM for our customers. Your clients' success depends on your ability to understand their needs and respond to requests for new services. This role is an integral part of both account planning and delivering support strategies, working to proactively monitor problems, change processes, and handle issues to ensure our customers success.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**
System Administrators are the gatekeepers to the many systems that run our company and our clients. As a System Admin with IBM, you will have the opportunity to provide high-value IT services and leverage our leading-edge technology portfolio in our global network. Your work has a direct impact on the day-to-day productivity of our business by ensuring integrity of, and access to, our most important resource: data.

**Responsibilities**:

- Data modelling like designing and implementation of data based on recognized standards.
- Software installation and its configuration.
- Backup and recovery operation of Database.
- Checking database connectivity and its security measurement
- Performance monitoring and fine tuning on actual basis.
- Managing and optimizing disk space for handling data
- Installing patches and upgrading software as and when needed.
- Automate manual tasks for faster performance.
- Installing Hadoop in Linux environment.
- Deployment in a Hadoop cluster and its maintenance.
- Health check of a Hadoop cluster monitoring whether it is up and running all the time.
- Analyse the storage data volume and allocating the space in HDFS.
- Resource management in a cluster environment. This involves new node creation and removal of unused ones.
- Implementing and administering Hadoop infrastructure on an ongoing basis.
- Required hardware and software deployment in Hadoop environment. Furthermore to expanding of existing environments.
- User creation in Linux for Hadoop and its components in the ecosystem. Moreover, setting up Kerberos principals is a part of Hadoop administration.
- Performance tuning and running jobs in Hadoop clusters.
- Installing the operating system and Hadoop related updates as and when required.
- Capacity planning
- Monitoring connectivity and security of Hadoop cluster
- Managing and reviewing log files in Hadoop.
- Management of HDFS file system and monitoring them.
- Maintaining HDFS and providing necessary supports.
- Backup and recovery tasks.
- Communicating with other development, administrating and business teams.
- Troubleshooting

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- General operational excellence. This includes good troubleshooting skills, understanding of system’s capacity and bottlenecks. Furthermore, you also need a basic understanding of memory management areas.
- Proper knowledge and hands-on experience in Hadoop ecosystem components.
- Hadoop administration demands one’s deployment skill in Hadoop cluster. Moreover, the job needs adding and removing nodes. It may need tracking of jobs and monitor the important parts of the cluster.
- Configuring high availability of name-node. Scheduling and taking backups
- Linux cron is the running platform of Hadoop. Hence, a good hands-on experience of Linux, its commands and scripting are a must.
- Configuration management and deployment exposure in Open source environment.
- Knowledge of Core Java is an added advantage in performing the job.

**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
- Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
- Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
- Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications

**About Business Unit**

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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