BigData DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries

Job Description

As an important aide to both the IT Infrastructure and Development teams, you will help support existing systems 24x7 and responsible for administering current Big Data environments. You will manage BigData Group environments and will work with teammates to maintain working solutions for our big data tech stack. To support product development following the product roadmap for product maintenance and enhancement such that the quality of software deliverables maintains excellent customer relationships and increases the customer base. You will report to the Engineering Manager, Data Platforms.

If you have the skills and we would love to talk to you!

What you'll do:

• Implement, support, and administer Hadoop and AWS EMR environments.

• Maintain Terraform and IaC for provisioning and managing AWS resources.

• Provide CI/CD solutions.

• Automate deployment and operations of Big Data technologies using DevOps tools.

• Onboard Hadoop users and manage Kerberos, HDFS, Hive, HBase, and Yarn access.

• Implement security best practices across HBase, HDFS, Kafka, Hive, and related components.

• Tune Hadoop clusters, MapReduce, Spark workloads, and optimize EMR for performance and cost.

• Monitor group health, logs, storage, and perform proactive capacity management.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, DB, application, and BI teams to ensure platform reliability.

• Support upgrades and patching for EMR, HBase, Spark, and other data platforms.

• Troubleshoot system issues and analyze CPU, memory, OS, storage, and network performance.

• Deploy and manage Hadoop clusters, configure HA, manage nodes, schedule jobs, and perform backups.

• Support integrations across cloud/on‑prem networks and data platforms.

• Configure and maintain tools like Sentry, Spark, Kafka, Oozie, Solr, MongoDB, DocumentDB, and ELK.

• Integrate AD/LDAP with Cloudera, manage Sentry policies.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree (in Computer Science or related field) or equivalent.

• 3+ years of Hadoop infrastructure administration – AWS EMR or Cloudera environments

• 2+ years of Linux (Redhat) system administration (Optional)

• Cloud Platforms IaaS/PaaS – Cloud solutions: AWS, Azure, VMWare.

• Gen AI / Agentic AI knowledge is plus

• Automation skills – Ansible and Terraform.

• Kerberos administration skills

• Experience coding languages SQL, Python

• Good experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Puppet and Shell scripting

• Must have knowledge on DevOps tools.

• Working Knowledge of YARN, HBase, Hive, Spark, and Kafka.

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams

• Bachelors or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Knowledge of our strategy and use of back-office applications.

• To multi-lingual and multicultural environment, additional language skills are a bonus.

• Receptive to change.

• With our users at all levels.

Additional Information

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's people first, inclusive and purpose driven culture is multi award-winning; World's Best Workplaces™ 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work™ in 26 countries to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or explore our Careers Site to understand why.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all groups protected under applicable federal, state and local law, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

• Benefits/Perks:

Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.

• This is a fully remote job opportunity. #LI-Remote