Hadoop Administrator
Location Address: Hybrid – 720 King Street W, 6th Floor
Contract Duration: 3 Months
Extension Opportunity: Yes, opportunity to extend up to 12 months depending on performance
FTE Opportunity: Possibility based on need
Number of Positions: 2
Scheduled Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
The Team:
Scotiabank’s Global Technology Services (GTS) – EDL & Data Management Services is looking for a Hadoop Administrator. The team is responsible for managing and supporting Hadoop platforms covering Canada, Caribbean, Latin America (LATAM) and various other countries that includes managing and the implementation of new technology, security patches and software deployment across the bank, as well as collaborating in the process of continuous improvement to the different subsidiaries under the direction of globalization and consolidation of applications and services.
Candidate Value Proposition:
We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology. We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success! We also foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning.
Typical Day in Role:
• You will play critical role to support and improve user experience for our Hadoop platforms and tools
• You will be responsible for deploying, monitoring, and supporting this environment, directly working with developers, business users, and other related support teams.
• You will create test plans, test strategies, and perform manual/automation testing
• As an active collaborator on end-to-end projects, you will follow up with troubleshooting of any production issues reported and fix, if required, any further enhancement(s) and ensure working product are delivered with quality
• Reporting directly to Manager
Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:
1. You have at least 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience in supporting, deploying, and interconnecting Hadoop – HDP/CDP and various technologies (e.g., Linux servers, monitoring) at an enterprise scale
2. You are familiar with DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts and tools and can apply them in your daily tasks to improve execution and quality of service
3. You have at least 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience with general Operating System (OS) support on any Linux and/or flavour of Unix OS
Nice to Have Skills:
• Intermediate SQL database knowledge
• Experience with Bash scripting automation using Ansible and Python
Best vs. Average Candidate:
• You thrive on being hands-on during mid to complex project deployments into production. This will include the support of assigned systems by acting as an internal consultant on assigned infrastructure and providing suggestions for viable solutions to systems problems of high complexity
• You want to be challenged with complex problem solving in time sensitive situations to reduce system downtime and able to suggest solutions to automate recurrent issues to improve user experiences
• You are highly interested in technologies related with big data and large-scale computing like Hadoop, Kubernetes and Linux clusters and is comfortable reading and sometimes writing code
Soft Skills:
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization
• Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to collaborate and work closely with external vendors
• Superior problem solving and decision-making skills to resolve work issues with the ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction
Education:
• You have completed a post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technology-based major
Candidate Review & Selection:
• 1st round interview – Panel (1 hour)
• Possibility of 2nd round interview with Director