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Big Data Platform Engineer

Agama Solutions
Charlotte, NC Contractor
POSTED ON 8/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/11/2026

Hello,

Hope you are doing well!

 

My name is Rishi, and I represent Agama Solutions, a distinguished staffing and recruiting company with a proven track record of success. For over 19 years, Agama Solutions has been a trusted partner, working directly with Commercial, State and Federal agencies delivering exceptional results since our inception in 2006.

 

We are currently seeking talented individuals like you to join our team and contribute to our continued success. Our company prides itself on fostering a dynamic work environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and personal growth.


Greetings,

Hope you are doing well!

 

My name is Jyoti Kumari, and I represent Agama Solutions, a distinguished staffing and recruiting company with a proven track record of success. For over 19 years, Agama Solutions has been a trusted partner, working directly with Commercial, State and Federal agencies delivering exceptional results since our inception in 2006.

 

We are currently seeking talented individuals like you to join our team and contribute to our continued success. Our company prides itself on fostering a dynamic work environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and personal growth.

 

Position details

Req, ID:    BACJP00223996

Title:         Hadoop / Big Data Platform Engineer

Client:       Bank of America

Interview: Webcam

Location:  Chicago, IL / Charlotte, NC (3 Days onsite, 2 Days Remote) Hybrid role.

Duration:  4 Months contract with possible extension

 

Job Descriptions:

Hadoop Engineer (SME) role supporting NextGen Platforms built around Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Impala, HBase, Docker-Container, Ansible and many more). Requires experience in cluster management of vendor-based Hadoop and Data Science (AI/ML) products like Cloudera, Databricks. Hadoop Engineer is involved in the full life cycle of an application and part of an agile development process. They require the ability to interact, develop, engineer, and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels with clients, development teams, vendors, and other partners. The following section is intended to serve as a general guideline for each relative dimension of project complexity, responsibility, and education/experience within this role.

  • Works on complex, major or highly visible tasks in support of multiple projects that require multiple areas of expertise
  • Team member will be expected to provide subject matter expertise in managing Hadoop and Data Science Platform operations with focus around Cloudera Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, OpenShift, Docker-Container Cluster Management and Administration
  • Integrates solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework
  • He / She will be responsible for managing platform operations across all environments which includes upgrades, bug fixes, deployments, metrics / monitoring for resolution and forecasting, disaster recovery, incident / problem / capacity management
  • Serves as a liaison between client partners and vendors in coordination with project managers to provide technical solutions that address user needs
  • Experience on L1, L2 L3 level support in Hadoop Platform
  • Experience in Yarn , Spark and Impala job debugging and troubleshooting
  • Experience in addressing issues around Name node , HDFS Space , File/Folder Permission backups
  • Understanding and experience in experience in query performance tuning and resource utilization tuning
  • Technical knowledge on relational databases, data warehousing and SQL skills
  • Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Impala, Hive, HBase, Ozone etc.
  • Strong knowledge of Hadoop Architecture, HDFS, Hadoop Cluster and Hadoop Administrator's role
  • Intimate knowledge of fully integrated AD/Kerberos authentication
  • Experience setting up optimum cluster configurations
  • Debugging knowledge of YARN.
  • Hands-on with analysing various Hadoop log files, compression, encoding, file formats
  • Expert level knowledge of Cloudera Hadoop components such as HDFS, Sentry, HBase, Kafka, Impala, SOLR, Hue, Spark, Hive, YARN, Zookeeper and Postgres
  • Strong technical knowledge: Unix/Linux; Database (Sybase/SQL/Oracle), Java, Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Infrastructure.
  • Experience in Monitoring Alerting, and Job Scheduling Systems
  • Being comfortable with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
  • Strong grasp of automation / DevOps tools Ansible, Jenkins, SVN, Bitbucket

 

Tools Involved

  • ETL tools: Hadoop Stack
  • Job Scheduling tools: Autosys
  • BI tools: Tableau ; Tableau dashboard building connecting Hadoop-Hive Tables is equally preferred

 

Shift Timings: 8AM 5PM / 12:30PM ET 9:30PM ET

 

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working on Big Data Technologies
  • Cloudera Admin / Dev Certification
  • Certification in Cloud, Docker-Container, OpenShift Technologies

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

  • Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan.
  • Our benefit offerings provide employees with the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs.
  • In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.
  • Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.
  • To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit https://www.akkodis.com/en/privacy-policy.

 

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

  • The California Fair Chance Act
  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
 
Jyoti Kumari
Senior Technical Recruiter
Jyoti.kumari@agamasolutions.com
Desk: 510 980 9891 ext 0915

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