Senior Consultant (Hadoop / Bigdata) - System Architect

Company Description

Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates, distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from all data: data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks is focused on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi, and Spark. Along with its 1,600+ partners, Hortonworks provides the expertise, training, and services that allow customers to unlock transformational value for their organizations across any line of business.

Job Description

• Work directly with customer’s technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements
• Analyse complex distributed production deployments, and make recommendations to optimize performance
• Able to document and present complex architectures for the customer’s technical teams
• Work closely with Hortonworks’ teams at all levels to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer
• Deploy, augment, upgrade and operate large Hadoop clusters
• Write and produce technical documentation, knowledge-base articles
• Keep current with the Hadoop Big Data ecosystem technologies

Qualifications

• Overall 8+ years experience
• Experience implementing data transformation and processing solutions using Apache PIG
• Experience designing data queries against data in the HDFS environment using tools such as Apache Hive
• Experience implementing MapReduce jobs
• Experience setting up multi-node Hadoop clusters
• Experience in systems administration or DevOps experience on one or more open-source operating systems
• Strong understanding with various enterprise security practices and solutions such as LDAP and/or Kerberos
• Strong understanding of network configuration, devices, protocols, speeds and optimizations
• Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• 2+ years designing and deploying 3 tier architectures or large-scale Hadoop solutions
• Familiarity with scripting tools such as bash shell scripts, Python and/or Perl
• Experience with NiFi is desired
• Significant previous work writing to network-based APIs, preferably REST/JSON or XML/SOAP
• Understanding of the Java ecosystem and enterprise offerings, including debugging and profiling tools (e.g. jstack, jmap, jconsole), logging and monitoring tools (log4j, JMX)
• Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communications

Additional Information

Quick facts about Hortonworks : http://hortonworks.com/about-us/quick-facts/
Products: HDP, HDF, Metron & Cloudbreak, DataPlane: https://hortonworks.com/products/
Our Manifesto: https://hortonworks.com/manifesto/
Future of Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFDvi7xW08E
Blog: https://hortonworks.com/news-blogs/
Hortonworks Ecosystem: https://hortonworks.com/ecosystems/
Apache Software Foundation: http://www.apache.org/
Newsketter: https://hortonworks.com/newsletters/