Hadoop Administration ( Lead )

Sonsoft Inc

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Austin, TX, us on site Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted February 23, 2026 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

Sonsoft , Inc. is a USA based corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Georgia. Sonsoft Inc. is growing at a steady pace specializing in the fields of Software Development, Software Consultancy and Information Technology Enabled Services.

• At least 2 years of experience in Implementation and Administration of Hadoop infrastructure 
• At least 2 years of experience in Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance projects.
• Operational expertise in troubleshooting , understanding of system’s capacity, bottlenecks, basics of memory, CPU, OS, storage, and networks
• Hadoop, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, Mahout
• Hadoop Administration skills: Experience working in Cloudera Manager or Ambari, Ganglia, Nagios
• Experience in using Hadoop Schedulers - FIFO, Fair Scheduler, Capacity Scheduler
• Experience in Job Schedule Management - Oozie or Enterprise Schedulers like Control-M, Tivoli 
• Good knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to setting up Ad/LDAP/Kerberos Authentication models
• Familiarity with open source configuration management and deployment tools such as Puppet or Chef and Linux scripting, Autosys
• Experience in Shell and Perl scripting and exposure to Python
• Knowledge of Troubleshooting Core Java Applications is a plus
• Exposure to Real-time Execution engines like Spark, Storm, Kafka
• Version control Management tools : Subversion or Clearcase or CVS, Github
• Experience in Service Management Ticketing tools - ServiceNow, Service Manager, Remedy


Responsibilities
  Upgrades
  Hadoop Ecosystem and Clusters maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes
  Perform administrative activities with Cloudera Manager/Ambari and tools like Ganglia, Nagios
  Setting up and maintaining Infrastructure and configuration for Hive, Pig and MapReduce 
  Monitor Hadoop Cluster Availability, Connectivity and Security
• Setting up Linux users, groups, Kerberos principals and keys 
• Aligning with the Systems engineering team in maintaining hardware and software environments required for Hadoop
• Software installation, configuration, patches and upgrades 
• Working with data delivery teams to setup Hadoop application development environments
• Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines
• Screen Hadoop cluster job performances
• Data modelling, Database backup and recovery
• Manage and review Hadoop log files
• File system management, Disk space management and monitoring (Nagios, Splunk etc)
• HDFS support and maintenance
• Planning of Back-up, High Availability and Disaster Recovery Infrastructure
• Diligently teaming with 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 and version upgrades
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment
• Experience to XXdomain 
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of overall IT experience

 ** U.S. Citizens and those who are authorized to work independently in the United States are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Note:-
1.This is a Full-Time & Permanent job opportunity for you.
2.Only US Citizen Green Card Holder GC-EAD,& TN  can apply.
3.No  H4-EAD  L2-EAD  OPT-EAD, H1B  candidates please.
4.Please mention your Visa Status in your email or resume.

About this role

Summary

Administer and maintain Hadoop clusters, perform upgrades, troubleshoot, and optimize performance.

Job title

Hadoop Administration ( Lead )

Experience level

4+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Austin, TX, US; remote not allowed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

hadoopcloudera managerambariganglianagioslinuxshell scriptingperl scriptingpythonkerberospuppetchefautosyssubversiongithubservicenow

Preferred skills

sparkstormkafkacore javadisaster recovery

Specializations

hadoopmapreducehbasehivepig
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City