CareerPlan

Lead, Big Data Administrator

Irving, TexasRemoteFull-time$139k–$182k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10

Core

Deploying and managing large-scale distributed Hadoop and Kafka systems to ensure performance, availability, and scalability for data pipelines.

Role type

Senior Big Data Administrator (Infrastructure)

Builds

High-availability data processing environments and streaming pipelines

Domain

Big Data Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Spark), Kafka, ZooKeeper, Kerberos, SSL/TLS, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible, Bash, Python

Preferred skills

Disaster recovery strategy design, cluster optimization, data pipeline orchestration

Technologies

Hadoop, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Ranger, Atlas, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible

Responsibilities

Deploy and manage large-scale distributed systems; Oversee installation, configuration, and maintenance of Hadoop and Kafka clusters; Implement high-availability and disaster recovery strategies; Perform performance tuning and resource allocation; Handle data pipeline orchestration; Ensure data security through encryption and access control; Troubleshoot complex cluster issues; Automate repetitive tasks using scripting.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC