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Dear Candidate,

I’m reaching out about a Hadoop Platform Engineer role with Bank of America (via Implementation Partner). This is a 12+ month onsite contract in Dallas, TX. Please review the key details below:

Job Title: Hadoop Platform Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Employment Type: Contract
Work Auth: Open to all except H1B, OPT, CPT
End-Client: Bank of America (via Implementation Partner)
Domain: Banking background preferred

Core Skills Required:

Platform Engineering & Cluster Management

• Hadoop cluster design, deployment, and maintenance (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce)
• Cluster administration, monitoring, tuning, and issue resolution
• Security: Authentication, authorization, encryption
• Backup & DR, performance optimization, and DevOps collaboration
• Documentation and technical support

Admin & Self-Service Tools

• RBAC, configuration templates, resource mgmt, and monitoring
• Self-service provisioning, scaling, scheduling, ingestion
• Cost monitoring, compliance, auditing, and user feedback tools

Data Engineering

• ETL, NiFi, data modeling, SQL tuning, and data pipelines
• Real-time processing with Kafka, Spark Streaming
• Governance, security, orchestration (Airflow), version control
• Collaboration with data scientists and compliance best practices
• Big data tools: Flink, Beam, data transformation (Avro, Parquet)

Desired Skills & Soft Skills

• Problem-solving, collaboration, adaptability, capacity planning
• Scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible), observability, and networking
• Strong security and performance monitoring practices

Technologies/Tools:

• Cloudera CDH/CDP, Databricks, HDInsight
• HDFS, MapReduce, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Impala, HBase, Kudu, Sqoop, Oozie
• RHEL/Linux, LDAP/AD, Kerberos
• Cluster mgmt tools (Ambari, Cloudera Manager)
• Large-scale, on-prem Hadoop environments

If you or someone in your network is interested, please feel free to reach out for more details.

Please reply with your updated resume and your availability for a brief chat.     

Thanks and Regards

Abhay Kumar Jain

Technical Recruiter

abhay@vsgbusinesssolutions.com

linkedin.com/in/abhay-kumar-jain-984856311

VSG Business Solutions Inc.

3240 East State Street Ext, Suite 203, Hamilton, NJ 08619