Senior Consultant (Hadoop / Bigdata) - System Architect

Hortonworks

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Barangaroo, NSW, au on site Until 8/23/2026 First posted March 23, 2025 Last posted March 23, 2025
Job description

Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates, distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from all data: data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks is focused on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi, and Spark. Along with its 1,600+ partners, Hortonworks provides the expertise, training, and services that allow customers to unlock transformational value for their organizations across any line of business.

  • Work directly with customer’s technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements
  • Analyse complex distributed production deployments, and make recommendations to optimize performance
  • Able to document and present complex architectures for the customer’s technical teams
  • Work closely with Hortonworks’ teams at all levels to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customer
  • Deploy, augment, upgrade and operate large Hadoop clusters
  • Write and produce technical documentation, knowledge-base articles
  • Keep current with the Hadoop Big Data ecosystem technologies

 

     

    • Overall 8+ years experience
    • Experience implementing data transformation and processing solutions using Apache PIG
    • Experience designing data queries against data in the HDFS environment using tools such as Apache Hive
    • Experience implementing MapReduce jobs
    • Experience setting up multi-node Hadoop clusters
    • Experience in systems administration or DevOps experience on one or more open-source operating systems
    • Strong understanding with various enterprise security practices and solutions such as LDAP and/or Kerberos
    • Strong understanding of network configuration, devices, protocols, speeds and optimizations
    • Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
    • 2+ years designing and deploying 3 tier architectures or large-scale Hadoop solutions
    • Familiarity with scripting tools such as bash shell scripts, Python and/or Perl
    • Experience with NiFi is desired
    • Significant previous work writing to network-based APIs, preferably REST/JSON or XML/SOAP
    • Understanding of the Java ecosystem and enterprise offerings, including debugging and profiling tools (e.g. jstack, jmap, jconsole), logging and monitoring tools (log4j, JMX)
    • Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements
    • Excellent verbal and written communications

    Quick facts about Hortonworks : http://hortonworks.com/about-us/quick-facts/
    Products: HDP, HDF, Metron & Cloudbreak, DataPlane: https://hortonworks.com/products/
    Our Manifesto: https://hortonworks.com/manifesto/
    Future of Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFDvi7xW08E
    Blog: https://hortonworks.com/news-blogs/
    Hortonworks Ecosystem: https://hortonworks.com/ecosystems/
    Apache Software Foundation: http://www.apache.org/
    Newsketter: https://hortonworks.com/newsletters/

     

    About this role

    Summary

    Designs, deploys, and optimizes Hadoop clusters; develops data solutions; documents architectures.

    Job title

    Senior Consultant (Hadoop / Bigdata) - System Architect

    Experience level

    8+ years

    Industry

    software

    Location requirements

    Must be in Barangaroo, NSW, with remote work not specified.

    Salary

    Not specified

    Management role

    No

    Skills & keywords

    Required skills

    hadoophivepigmapreducehdfssystem administrationdevopssecuritynetwork configurationconfiguration managementscriptingrest/jsonjava

    Preferred skills

    nifiperlpythonxml soaplogging monitoring

    Specializations

    big datahadoopsystem architecturedevopssecurity
    Locations

    Structured locations inferred from the posting.

    Barangaroo NSW 2000, Australia

    On-site City