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About the Company
Konviere is an IT consulting and software company specializing in providing sophisticated, customized services to solve complex business challenges. By combining industry expertise, intellectual property, and technology, Konviere helps clients achieve tangible business results. With a commitment to excellence, Konviere delivers technology-enabled solutions to exceed client expectations.
About the Role
As a Hadoop Solution Engineer, the role focuses on establishing and maintaining a mature solution engineering practice supporting both on-premise and cloud-based Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) installations. The engineer will lead efforts in migrating legacy Hadoop environments, ensuring fault tolerance and seamless integration. The role also involves the design and management of secure and optimized Hadoop environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the establishment of a mature solution engineering practice for Apache Hadoop and HDP installations.
- Migrate legacy Apache Hadoop (1.x) environments to modern, supported versions, focusing on fault tolerance.
- Develop financial models for performance-specific investments to ensure effective capital use.
- Engineer and manage the installation, configuration, and tuning of Hadoop platforms.
- Analyze and monitor Hadoop environments to prevent deficiencies and service interruptions.
- Design and implement a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) framework using the principle of least privilege.
Required Skills
- Strong technical expertise in managing production Hadoop environments and Hortonworks HDP.
- Experience installing and configuring Apache Hadoop components (HDFS, Hive, Solr, Zookeeper, HBase, Kafka).
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
- Bachelor’s degree in Technology or equivalent experience.
- Strong leadership, communication, and financial analysis skills.
- Experience troubleshooting network configurations involving multiple subnets and VLANs.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
- Vendor certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, and Cisco.
- IBM Netezza experience is a plus.
- Automation expertise using tools like Salt, Puppet, Ansible, or SCCM.
- Technical expertise in Linux systems management (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Hadoop ecosystem components like HDFS, Kafka, Hive, HBase, etc.
- Experience with cloud-based deployments and migrations.
Why Join Konviere?
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions and sophisticated business challenges.
- Join a company committed to excellence and delivering real business results.
- Collaborative work environment that promotes innovation and continuous learning.