Job Location: Irving, Texas Job Type: Full Time Responsibilities Duties: Responsible for deploying and managing large-scale distributed systems, ensuring their performance, availability, and scalability; Oversee the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Hadoop ecosystems, including HDFS, Yarn, Hive, and Spark, as well as Kafka clusters; Implement and manage high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for both Hadoop and Kafka environments; Performance tuning, including resource allocation, cluster optimization, and monitoring, is a core responsibility to maintain system efficiency; Handle data pipeline orchestration and ensure seamless integration between Kafka producers, consumers, and downstream processing frameworks; Ensuring data security through encryption, access control, and auditing mechanisms; Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to cluster health, data loss, or Kafka offsets while maintaining minimal downtime; Automation of repetitive tasks using tools like Ansible, shell scripting in order to enhance the operational efficiency; Collaborate closely with development, data engineering, and analytics teams to support evolving business requirements and optimize workflows; and Staying updated with emerging technologies in big data and streaming, which provide strategic guidance on system upgrades and architectural improvements. Telecommuting available from anywhere in the US Qualifications Requirements Employer will accept a bachelor's degree in Computer Applications or a related field followed by eight years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or eight years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained Position requires: Proficiency with the core Hadoop components and managing a cluster, including HDFS, Yarn, Hive, and Spark, as well as Kafka clusters.