Hadoop Admin

Hadoop Administrator

4+ years of administrator experience on Big Data Hadoop Ecosystem and related technologies (Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Flume)

Prior experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and workload mapping a plus

Coding and developing in Hadoop

3+ years of strong Linux and Hadoop administration background in a production support setting is required

Expert in SQL and/or Shell scripting, stored procedures, and construction of highly complex queries is required

Hands-on experience working with unstructured data is required

Excellent knowledge of UNIX/LINUX OS because Hadoop runs on Linux.

Knowledge of high degree configuration management and automation tools like Puppet or Chef for non-trivial installation.

Knowledge of cluster monitoring tools like Ambari, Ganglia, or Nagios.

Knowing of core java is a plus for a Hadoop admin but not mandatory.

Good understanding of OS concepts, process management and resource scheduling.

Basics of networking, CPU, memory and storage.

Good hold of shell scripting

A knack of all the components in the Hadoop ecosystem like Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache Mahout, etc.

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