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Kyle, Texas, United States

- Infrastructure and operations support role for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services primarily - supporting Cloudera CDH distribution of Hadoop.- Provided hardware, software, backup solutions, monitoring and security, and developer and end user support in an environment with over 2 PB of data in the Hadoop environment and 1 PB in the Teradata environment.- Core software utilized: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, LDAP, Kerberos, Ansible, Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Spark, Hive, Hue, Impala, Kudu, Oozie, Sentry, Sqoop, Zookeeper, Jira, and Precisely DMX-h.- Provided recommendations for innovation to CMS to achieve the most from their environment, including Apache Kudu, Informatica BDM, and MySQL high availability. - Performed documentation of best practices surrounding Apache Kudu, Informatica BDM, MySQL high availability, GitLab, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 upgrade preparation, and CDH 6 upgrade preparation.- Supported the following efforts: expand access to Hue from a forward-facing network layer via a proxy, migration of data and reinstallation of Hadoop software in support of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 upgrade, as well as a hardware refresh.- Created bash scripts for various operational duties such as backing up data for new software, copying data across environments, and creating certificates for configuration of TLS.- Other responsibilities include code promotions, executing ETL scripts in special request forms, and troubleshooting user access issues.- Gained hands on experience using Amazon Web Services for creating test environments as well as utilizing DeepRacer for machine learning exercises.- Hadoop security: LDAP integration with Hue, Cloudera Manager, Hive, and Impala, Apache Sentry, Kerberos authentication, and TLS.

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- Supported private cloud platform as an application admin for the following software: Hortonworks HDP distribution of Hadoop, HPE Vertica, and TIBCO Spotfire, serving as the lead Hadoop admin on the team.- Provided software, backup solutions, monitoring and security, and developer and end user support for over a dozen Hadoop environments both in the cloud and on-premises, delegated activities to team members, and performed documentation and knowledge transfer.- Core software utilized: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows Server, Red Hat Identity Management, LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos, Chef, Ganglia, Nagios, Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Spark, Hive, Hue, Tez, Kafka, Oozie, Ranger, Sqoop, Zookeeper, HPE Vertica, and TIBCO Spotfire.- Performed installation, functional testing, upgrades and backups for software mentioned.- Performed documentation for installation, upgrades, and backups for software mentioned.- Handled and resolved incidents in a timely manner to ensure customer satisfaction for multiple clients at a time.- Led effort for an on-premises client to migrate their Linux Hadoop environment to utilize Kerberos security through Active Directory.- Hadoop administration duties included Ambari installation, Cloudera Manager installation, adding and removing nodes and services, high availability, capacity scheduler, fair scheduler, and performance tuning for Hive, MapReduce2, Spark, and Kafka.- HPE Vertica: DML, DDL, database security, creating projections, incremental and full database backups- Hadoop and Vertica integration: HDFS connector, MapReduce connector, and HCatalog connector.- Hadoop security: Hive authorization, HDFS ACL’s, Apache Ranger, Apache Knox, Kerberos authentication, and TLS.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Management Information Systems, General

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