Hadoop Admin

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Job Description

Hadoop Admin

Position Description
We offer the opportunity to work with Canada’s largest Information Technology Outsourcing and Management Consulting Company with a true global presence in a fast-paced and energetic atmosphere where your personal and professional growth is accelerated by your desire and sense of commitment. CGI’s continuous growth is a testament to the confidence clients place in them and to the dedication of their professionals. At CGI, all employees are called members because they feel a powerful sense of ownership and accountability. Members at CGI are building their own company – in 100+ offices worldwide. CGI has the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for clients – and for members; that’s why an astounding 90 percent of them are CGI shareholders.

We're expanding in Atlantic Canada and we need your skills, enthusiasm, and dedication as part of our team.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure.

• Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments.

• Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users.

• Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools like Ganglia, Nagios, Cloudera Manager Enterprise, Dell Open Manage and other tools.

• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines.

• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning

• Monitor Hadoop cluster connectivity and security

• Manage and review Hadoop log files.

• File system management and monitoring.

• HDFS 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 operating system and Hadoop updates, patches, version upgrades when required.

• Point of Contact for Vendor escalation

• The most essential requirements are: They should be able to deploy Hadoop cluster, add and remove nodes, keep track of jobs, monitor critical parts of the cluster, configure name-node high availability, schedule and configure it and take backups.

• CCA Administrator /HDP Administrator certification is preferable

Required Technical Skills:

• Should be familiar with Hortonware HDP 3.1, Arcadia ArcViz, HDP Cloudbreak , Ambari 2.3

Required Level of Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Diploma in IT with equivalent IT experience

Soft Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Strong written and oral and comprehension communication skills

• Positive attitude

• Flexibility, self-motivated, and has the ability to give and receive feedback

• Ability to working effectively and collaboratively with others to achieve common goals

• Able to multitask effectively

• Have excellent time management, task planning and prioritization skills

• Able to adapt quickly to changing client requirements

• Able to work effectively with minimal supervision

• Enjoy working in a self-teaching, learning organization

• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and team member

Your future duties and responsibilities

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

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