Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Abzooba
Location: Allen
Posted on: September 2, 2020

Job Description:

About the Role:Ascend Sandbox is an integrated BigData and analytics product. Our customers, some of the America's largest financial institutions, use this platform to understand consumer credit behavior and build models for credit decisioning, marketing and account review purposes. We are looking for a problem solver with can-do attitude who takes extreme ownership of his/her work and demonstrate camaraderie with the fellow team members. We are looking for an expert site reliability engineer with in-depth knowledge on BigData analytics & public cloud platforms to help us run this peta-byte scale BigData platform and provide the best possible experience for our customers.Must Have skills:-- Solid knowledge on Unix operating system (any flavor of Unix)-- Decent knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP, HTTP(S), routing and network security) on any public cloud platform, preferably AWS-- Experience managing large BigData clusters in production (at least one of -- Cloudera, Hortonworks, EMR)-- Experience managing BigData clusters with compute decoupled from storage (Eg: S3) on public cloud platforms.-- Expert knowledge on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Hadoop YARN.-- Decent knowledge of various Hadoop file formats like ORC, Parquet, Avro etc.-- Deep understanding of Hive and Spark compute engines-- Ability to understand query plans and optimize performance for complex SQL queries on Hive and Spark.-- Hands on experience supporting Spark with Python (PySpark) and R (SparklyR, SparkR) languages.-- Experience building and managing tools/services to measure and monitor everything that matters on a BigData platform.-- Experience working with Data Analysts, Data Scientists and at least one of these related analytical applications like SAS, R-Studio, JupyterHub, H2O etc.-- Able to read and understand code (Java, Python, R, Scala), but expertise in at least one scripting language.-- Experience managing JVM based applications in production.Nice to have skills:-- Experience with workflow management tools like Airflow, Oozie etc.-- Solid experience with overall metrics, monitoring & observability function and products.-- Experience with at least one Infrastructure As Code tools, preferably Terraform.-- Experience with at least one configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.-- Decent programming skills in Java or Python (preferably Java).-- Prior working knowledge of Active Directory and Windows OS based VDI platforms like Citrix, AWS Workspaces etc.

Keywords: Abzooba, Allen , Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering , Allen, Texas