Immediate need for a Lead Cloudera Engineer with specific knowledge in Apache Solr! The Lead Cloudera Engineer is responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining and scaling cloud OR on-premise infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs. Responsibilities include:

- Hands-on/advanced (expert preferred) level experience in administrating and engineering relational databases (ex. MySQL, PostgreSQL), Big Data systems (ex. Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud and Public Cloud), Apache Solr as SME, ETL (ex. Ab Initio), BI (ex. MicroStrategy), automation tools (ex. Ansible, Terraform, Bit Bucket) and experience working cloud solutions (specifically data products on AWS) are necessary. 40% of the week will be hands-on technical support.
-Leading several teams of Big Data Administrators/Engineers to ensure project cohesiveness/completion. 60% of the week will be lead related responsibilities.

Although this position is 100% remote, we are seeking candidates that are local to the Reston VA area as there are monthly meetings to attend onsite. Want to learn more? Then you should contact Elite Technical right away for consideration!

Required Skills

-Education Level: Bachelor's Degree. In lieu of a Master's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
- At least 8 years of overall experience with all the tasks involved in administration of big data and Meta Data Hub such as Cloudera.
- Must have a minimum of 3 years of Lead experience (teams of 5+ is preferred)
- Must have expert level knowledge of Solr
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Expert
- Experience with Advance knowledge of UNIX and SQL

Preferred:
- Experience with Ab Initio, EMR, S3, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, ProgreSQL, RDS, DB2
- DevOps (CI/CD Pipeline) is a Plus.
- Prior experience with migration from on-premise to AWS Cloud. Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud big plus