A Hadoop administrator with experience of Hadoop on Azure HDInsight and using Azure Powershell cmdlets to create and administer clusters; having the Cloudera certification in Hadoop administration. With a broad range of experience of designing solutions for IT infrastructure, in particular for cloud computing and virtualised environments. Is adept at balancing several conflicting demands on time and resources, assessing their relative importance, and responding accordingly, born from a strong desire to deliver for the customer.Key SkillsHadoop Administration• Administering Hadoop running on Microsoft HDInsight, ensuring the cluster is running during core service hours.• Cluster creation and destruction; script actions to install software, create HDFS directories and users, and restore Zeppelin notebook definitions.• Configure external Hive Metastore database and create Hive table definitions.Azure Cloud• Developing Azure Powershell scripts and C# programs to create and configure HDInsight clusters and spin virtual machines up and down.• Developing Azure Powershell scripts to upload data to WASB storage, create storage accounts, create containers and create Azure Active Directory identities.Problem Resolution• Restoring service when high profile systems went down, ensuring the minimum downtime to the customers.• Investigating incidents and issues, drilling down to find the problem.Process Improvement• Created a template for documentation, allowing team members with limited experience of a system to quickly access the information they needed.• Designed and built a tool to simplify and speed up the installation of new software releases, resulting in faster installs and reduced cost.Software• Linux and Unix, good knowledge, including use of tools to monitor and investigate system performance.• Java, reasonable Java programming experience.• Scripting, experience of Bash shell scripting, Azure Powershell and Python.• Experience of using AWS.