Hadoop/Cloudera Administrator

Next Ventures are currently recruiting a Hadoop/Cloudera Administrator to join a global client in Zurich, Switzerland on a long-term contract.

Location: Zurich

Start: ASAP

Duration: 6 months rolling

Rate: negotiable

*Must have EU/British Passport*

You will be part of a global team responsible for implementation and ongoing administration.

THE CANDIDATE WILL HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH:

- Expert level knowledge of Cloudera Hadoop components such as HDFS, Sentry, HBase, Accumulo, Impala, Hue, Spark (and Spark streaming), Solr, Hive, Kafka, Pig, YARN, ZooKeeper and Postgres
- Good communication skills

ROLE:

- Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop clusters. This job includes setting up Kerberos principals and testing
- Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools like Cloudera Manager Enterprise
- Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines
- Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning
- Monitor Hadoop cluster connectivity and security
- Manage, Troubleshoot and review Hadoop log files
- Eyes-on-glass cluster monitoring and responding to internal tickets and email alerts. File system management and monitoring
- Setup Splunk monitoring
- HDFS and other Cloudera Hadoop components support and maintenance
- Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and Business Intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability
- Collaborating with application teams to install Hadoop updates, patches, version upgrades when required
- Aligning with the engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments
- Point of Contact for Vendor escalation

For immediate consideration, please send your updated CV to (see below)