We are looking for Hadoop Application Support/. This is a contract role in Mississauga. Its a 3 days Hybrid role. If you are interested and have the relevant skills please apply with a copy of resume and contact details.

Qualifications:

• 4-6 years experience in an Application Support role.

• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.

• Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.

• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization

• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.

• Demonstrated analytical skills

• Issue tracking and reporting using tools

• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

Hadoop/Big Data Platform Skill Set:

• Working knowledge of various components and technologies under Cloudera distribution like HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark, YARN, Sentry, Oozie, Kafka.

• Very good knowledge on analyzing the bottlenecks on the cluster - performance tuning, effective resource usage, capacity planning, investigating.

• Perform daily performance monitoring of the cluster - Implement best practices, ensure cluster stability and create/analyze performance metrics.

• Hands-on experience in supporting applications built on Hadoop.

Linux

• 4 – 5 years of experience

Database

• Good SQL experience in any of the RDBMS.

• Focus on Sybase / Oracle / MSSQL databases

Scheduler/Monitoring tools

• Autosys / CONTROL-M or other schedulers will be of added advantage.

• Knowledge / working experience of ITRS Active Console/other monitoring tools

Programming Languages

• PowerShell, UNIX shell scripting, Python, Java will be of added advantage.