Technology Lead | Big Data - Hadoop | Hadoop

Experienced Big Data Administrator responsible for managing, supporting, automating, and optimizing enterprise-scale Hadoop, Kafka, AWS cloud, and DevOps platforms. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, performance, security, scalability, and operational excellence across big data ecosystems while collaborating with development, architecture, and business teams., Kafka Administration Deploy, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters and AWS MSK environments. Monitor broker health, partitions, replication factors, and consumer lag. Perform capacity planning and cluster scaling activities. Manage Kafka security using SSL, SASL, ACLs, and encryption standards. Troubleshoot producer, consumer, and broker performance issues. Support Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Cruise Control, and MirrorMaker implementations. AWS Cloud Administration Manage cloud infrastructure services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EBS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS Glue. Support AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), EMR, Lambda, and Airflow environments. Implement cloud security best practices and governance controls. Perform infrastructure provisioning and automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Monitor cloud resource utilization and optimize operational costs. DevOps & Automation Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools. Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible. Manage source control repositories and release processes. Implement monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch. Support containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Develop automation scripts using Python, Shell, or Bash. Operations & Support Provide Level 2 and Level 3 production support. Participate in on-call support rotations and incident management activities. Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures. Create and maintain operational documentation and standard operating procedures. Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Apache Kafka Administration KRAFT and MSK AWS Cloud Services Linux (RHEL/Rocky Linux) Shell Scripting and Python Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Terraform Docker and Kubernetes Monitoring Tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk) Networking, Security, and High Availability Concepts Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Experience with Cloudera CDP, AWS MSK, Airflow, and Spark. AWS, GCP, Kafka, or Kubernetes certifications. Experience supporting large-scale production environments handling petabyte-scale data workloads. Key Achievements Expected Maintain platform availability above 99.9%. Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and accelerate troubleshooting and documentation. Automate repetitive operational tasks. Improve cluster performance and resource utilization. Ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data platform operations. Support enterprise data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads efficiently. Minimum years of experience 8-10 years Certifications Needed :No Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute Perform infrastructure provisioning and automation using Infrastructure as Code IaC. Design and maintain CICD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools. Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible Manage source control repositories and release processes. Implement monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or CloudWatch