Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Hybrid Hadoop Engineer and Hadoop Infrastructure Administrator to build and maintain a scalable and resilient Big Data framework to support Data Scientists.

As an administrator, your responsibility will be to deploy and maintain Hadoop clusters, add and remove nodes using cluster management and monitoring tools like Cloudera Manager, and support performance and scalability requirements, in support of our Data scientist's needs.

Some Relational Database administrator experience will also be desirable to support the general administration of Relational Databases.

Design, build, and maintain Big Data workflows / pipelines to process a continuous stream of data with experience in end-to-end design and build process of Near-Real-Time and Batch Data Pipelines.

Demonstrated work experience in the following with Big Data and distributed programming models and technologies

Knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and practices (both SQL and NoSQL).

Active development of ETL processes using Spark or other highly parallel technologies, and implementing ETL / data pipelines

Experience with Data technologies and Big Data tools, like Spark, Kafka, Hive

Understanding of Map Reduce and other Data Query and Processing and aggregation models

Understanding of challenges of transforming data across distributed clustered environment

Experience with techniques for consuming, holding, and aging out continuous data streams

Ability to provide quick ingestion tools and corresponding access APIs for continuously changing data schema, working closely with Data Engineers around specific transformation and access needs

Preferred :

Experience as a Database administrator (DBA) will be responsible for keeping critical tools database up and running

Building and managing high-availability environments for databases and HDFS systems

Familiarity with transaction recovery techniques and DB Backup

Skills and Attributes :

Ability to have effective working relationships with all functional units of the organization

Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team

Self-starter and Self-motivated

Ability to work without lots of supervision

Works under pressure and is able to manage competing priorities.

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