Database Administrator Specialist

Database Engineer Specialist

Database Engineer Specialist responsibilities include:

• Participate in the install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain Hadoop (Hortonworks Data Platform and Cloudera Data Platform) in production and non-production environments
• Provide DBA support on all aspects of databases administration including backup/recovery, replication, deployment and real time production troubleshooting responsibilities on Hadoop platform
• Hadoop administrator using Hortonworks/Cloudera, Administers Hadoop 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
• Troubleshooting application errors. Ensure the High Availability of Hadoop clusters
• Setup Role based authentication using sentry and Ranger services
• Experience with the full HDP/Cloudera CDH distribution to install, configure and monitor all services in the HDP/CDH stack
• Support the creation, maintenance, and replacement of EC2 nodes in AWS. Includes Cloud Formation Template creation, maintenance, and deployment
• Provide 24x7 on call DBA support for production environment on rotation and need basis
• Provide Database deployment support for Test and Production environments
• Diagnose and address database performance issues using performance monitors and various tuning techniques
• Interact with Systems administrators on Linux/Unix/VM operating systems issues related to Databases
• Able to write database maintenance and automation scripts
• Configure and maintain Database High availability
• Troubleshoot database production problems and database connectivity issues
• Implement DR solutions
• Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision

Basic Requirements:

• More than 7 years of experience in Database administration
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting Cloudera Hadoop infrastructure including services such as: Hive, Yarn, Kafka, MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Impala, Zeppelin
• Knowledge of security (Kerberos / Open LDAP) linking with Active Directory and/or LDAP
• Ability to architect data platforms for security, scalability, configuration and availability and access
• Troubleshooting capability for AWS Technologies like EC2, S3, Cloud Foundation, etc.

Required Skills: Must Haves: Experience with Hadoop is the key requirement. Must have hands on experience with installation, maintenance, and or transformation. Location: Must be onsite in McLean, VA or Dallas, TX - Hybrid.