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# Big Data Engineer

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Apache Accumulo, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Apache Hadoop, Hadoop Distributed File System, MapReduce, Ansible, Data Streaming, Apache Zookeeper, Kubernetes, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9302070/big-data-engineer

## About the Role

* 14 years of experience as a software engineer
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
 + 4 additional years of experience as a software engineer may be substituted for a degree, * Familiar with Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting.
 * Familiar with and able to develop and run ansible playbooks.
 * Primary development language would be Java.
 * Experience writing Map / Reduce applications.
 * Experience writing Accumulo iterators and using scanners and Accumulo ingest (streaming and bulk imports)
 * Familiarity with the Data Warehouse and their processing pipelines.

## Description

* Experience setting up, deploying, and troubleshooting Hadoop, Map / Reduce, Accumulo and Zookeeper - this also extends to current sustainment tasking.
 * Tasking would also include troubleshooting and fixing issues - for example off lining an HDFS node because of a bad disk. Off lining an Accumulo server processes because of bad memory...