[Remote] Hadoop Administrator

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Florida Blue is a managed service provider that partners with Magnit for contractor opportunities. The Hadoop Administrator will administer database systems, ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability while performing installations, upgrades, backups, and configurations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of Hadoop infrastructure
• Aligning with the systems engineering team to propose and deploy new hardware and software environments required for Hadoop and to expand existing environments
• Working with data delivery teams to setup new Hadoop users. This job includes setting up Linux users, setting up Kerberos principals and testing HDFS, Hive, Pig and MapReduce access for the new users
• Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes using tools like Ganglia, Nagios, Cloudera Manager Enterprise, Dell Open Manage and other tools
• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines
• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances and capacity planning
• Monitor Hadoop cluster connectivity and security
• Manage and review Hadoop log files
• File system management and monitoring
• HDFS support and maintenance
• Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability
• Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and Hadoop updates, patches, version upgrades when required
• Point of Contact for Vendor escalation
• Data modelling, design & implementation based on recognized standards
• Software installation and configuration
• Database backup and recovery
• Database connectivity and security
• Performance monitoring and tuning
• Disk space management
• Software patches and upgrades
• Automate manual tasks

Skills

• 3-5 Years of DBA experience
• 5-8 Years of Hadoop Admin Experience
• Related Bachelor's degree in an IT related field or relevant work experience

Company Overview

Florida Blue is a subsidiary of a not-for-profit health solutions company dedicated to serving all Floridians in the pursuit of health. It was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.floridablue.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Florida Blue has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 15 in 2026, 33 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 33 in 2023, 20 in 2022, 38 in 2021, 56 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.