Big Data Support / Hadoop Administrator (SQL/Linux) - Global Software Company - £105k + 10% bonus

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Birmingham
3 days ago
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Position: Big Data Support / Hadoop Administrator (SQL/Linux)

Client: Global Opensource Tech company

Salary: 105k GBP + 10% bonus

Location: London or Belfast...but remote working


Our client are the most impressive software company.....that you may never have heard of....even NASA use some of their software, the list goes on!


Are you all things opensource?Hope so, because our client provide the technical know-how required for maintaining robust implementations of hundreds of integrated open source software packages. You will be getting your hands dirty, building, configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting our client's big data solutions, delivering a best-in-class service to customers around the globe!


What experience do you need?

  • Experience analysing, supporting and improving enterprise scale big data systems, operated by third-party clients, resolving their complex issues in mission critical environments
  • Install, configure, validate, and monitor a bundle of open source packages
  • Administer automation for provisioning and updating our client's big data distribution.


Tech know-how:

  • Linux command-line essentials
  • Strong SQL and NoSQL
  • Experience designing or testing disaster recovery plans, including backup and recovery
  • Knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Experience of on-premises vs cloud vs hybrid, as well as bare metal vs virtualization
  • AWS or Azure experience
  • Virtualization and containerization at scale


Nice to haves:

  • DBA experience
  • Ansible playbook development
  • Experience with Git-based version control


If the above sounds like you and you're excited about joining a global engineering/software company with clients like NASA, Electronic Arts, Samsung, Tesla (I know, not the best timing, but still impressive tech), then send me your cv on here or by email to


After we've had a call, I can send you the full position description and we can discuss the company in more detail.


Thank you for taking the time to read our advert and I look forward to speaking with you soon.


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