Big Data Admin
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 19, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Summary
We are the Good Hands; we help people realize their hopes and dreams through products and services designed to protect them from lifes uncertainties and to prepare them for the future. Nearly every major Allstate project has a partnership with technology a partnership that is imperative to the success of the organization. With the companys size and related technology scale, job opportunities and career advancement paths in IT are abundant at Allstate. In order to maintain our place at the forefront of the technological landscape, Allstate needs to hire the best and the brightest talent is that you?
Job Description
Allstate is looking for top engineers to help build next generation data analytic and big data platforms and software solutions. The Big Data Engineer position works in an agile environment interacting with multiple technology and business areas designing and developing next generation analytics platforms and applications. The Engineer is responsible for the strategy and design of complex projects as well as coding, and also supports project planning and mentoring. Effective communication is important as this individual will be interfacing with different areas including business clients, technology, architecture and infrastructure services.
Job Qualifications
Proven track record with Hadoop administration
- Administration experience on Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Spark, Sentry/Ranger, HBase and Zookeeper
- Design, install, and maintain big data analytics platforms including design, security, capacity planning, cluster setup and performance tuning.
- Deep understanding of distributed Hadoop ecosystem, networking connectivity and IO throughput along with other factors that affect distributed system performance
- Expert in configuring & troubleshooting of all the components in the Hadoop ecosystem like MapReduce, YARN, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Zookeeper, Oozie
- Experience in installing/configuring cluster monitoring tools like Cloudera Manager/Ambari
- Hands-on experience scripting with bash or python (one of these)
- Working knowledge of hardening Hadoop with Kerberos, TLS,SSL and HDFS encryption.
- Good understanding on automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible)
Secondary:
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
- Expert in configuring & troubleshooting the components in the Hadoop ecosystem Spark, Solr, Scala, Kafka etc.
- Working closely with the various teams - data science, database, network, BI and application teams to make sure that all the big data applications are highly available and performing as expected
- Working knowledge on Jenkins, git, AWS.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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