Hadoop Support Engineer

My client in Zurich requires a Hadoop Support Engineer to help build and maintain a big data platform. In addition, the successful applicant will help to operate Palantir Foundry running on a Cloudera Hadoop Farm. My client adds multiple terabytes of data each day and the data scientists crunch through them with the help of Palantir Big Data technology. Key Responsibilities

Responsible for monitoring business applications and services in production, mainly based on strategic Big Data platform

Handling incident tickets as well as customer calls

Responsibility for Batch job monitoring and troubleshooting

Parsing and analysing data feeds as well as error checking

Writing and running scripts on DB for ad-hoc reports

Application/component administration on Windows/Unix Servers

Software release and problem management

Coordination for Disaster Recovery Testing

Automation of support activity

Support DevOps principle throughout the team

Currently the client does a lot of manual reactive work, the goal is to reduce this by 80% so that the main work is actually automated and proactively managed for future needs. Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

1.Claudera Hadoop certification or equivalent work experience

2. Experienced Linux engineer

3. High analytic and problem solving skills

4. Good prioritisation and time management skills

5. Bright, fast, positive and motivated, with a clear can-do, will-do' attitude

Please call Stuart Holman or email (see below)