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Job description
Hortonworks is hiring a Senior Consultant, System Architect — a full-time, based in Barangaroo, NSW role. Apply directly on Hortonworks's careers page below.
Senior Consultant (Hadoop / Bigdata) - System Architect
Location: Barangaroo, NSW, au
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/
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Frequently asked questions
What skills are required for Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks?
The required skills for Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks include: Hadoop, Big Data, Hive, LDAP, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Bash, Python, Perl, API, REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, Java, Spark.
What is the seniority level for Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks?
Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks is a Senior level position.
How do I apply for Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks?
You can view the full description and apply for Senior Consultant, System Architect at Hortonworks on EchoJobs: https://echojobs.io/job/hortonworks-senior-consultant-hadoop-bigdata-system-architect-bjew5.