Lead Platform Engineer (Hadoop)
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Job Description:
We are seeking bright, talented and driven engineers to join a team of passionate and innovative technologists. In this role, you will experience hands on engineering and administration experience on Discovers next generation platforms supporting the most critical payments applications for all of Discover network brands.
Responsibilities:
- Contributing member of a high performing engineering and administration team over Critical Hadoop Application clusters.
- Provide technical expertise to design efficient engineering solutions for next generation platforms which include the following technologies: (Kafka, Storm, Spark, Solr, Zookeeper, NiFi, HBase, HDFS, HIVE, YARN, Ranger, Knox, Ambari and Kerberos)
- Big Data Cluster platform provisioning-administration
- Big Data Cluster Resiliency and Performance engineering and administration
- Big Data Cluster Security Implementations
- Big Data engineering and administration for high availability, replications and disaster recovery solutions
- Big Data database engineering and administration
- Leverage DevOps techniques and practices to include Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment test build automation working with key application architects and application developers
- Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.
- Level 2/3 “go to” team for operational support
Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Information Technology) or the equivalent work experience
- 5+ years working within Infrastructure Technology
- 4+ years’ experience working with Hadoop Cluster Engineering and Administration
- A level of hands-on experience working with Kafka, Storm, Spark, Solr, Zookeeper, NiFi, HBase, HDFS, HIVE, YARN, Ranger, Knox, Ambari and Kerberos
- Experience leveraging DevOps techniques
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Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.
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