Sr. AWS EMR Admin

Tiger Analytics Inc.; Canada; Presencial; CAD 110.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Tiger Analytics Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior AWS EMR Administrator to design, deploy, and manage our cloud data infrastructure.

You will build persistent and transient EMR clusters to support large-scale batch processing and collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure secure, automated operations using IaC. You will lead cluster management, infrastructure automation, and performance optimization across AWS services, including EMR, EC2, and S3, while ensuring cost efficiency and

Formación

• 7–8+ years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure and AWS EMR Administration.
• Strong proficiency with AWS EMR, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, and batch data environments.
• Demonstrated experience deploying cloud resources using CloudFormation, Terraform, and CodePipeline (or equivalent CI/CD tools).
• Deep understanding of EMR architecture, cluster life cycles, and node configurations.

Responsabilidades

• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS EMR clusters for batch data pipelines.
• Automate deployment using CloudFormation, Terraform, and CodePipeline.
• Optimize storage and compute resources (EC2, S3) for performance, security, and cost.
• Monitor and troubleshoot EMR environments and data processing workloads.
• Ensure security configurations and access controls across AWS services.

Conocimientos

AWS EMR

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Herramientas

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

AWS CodePipeline

Descripción del empleo

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS EMR Administrator to manage, optimize, and scale our cloud data infrastructure. In this hands-on technical role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters to support large-scale batch data processing pipelines. You will collaborate closely with data engineering teams and leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure reliable, secure, and automated operations across our AWS ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Cluster Management: Architecture, deploy, and maintain persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters tailored to business workloads and operational needs.
• Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement deployment automation using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, or Terraform.
• Storage & Compute Optimization: Manage AWS EC2, S3, and related compute and storage resources to ensure high performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Data Pipeline Support: Monitor and support batch data processing workloads, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and operational issues across the EMR environment.
• System Administration: Perform routine maintenance, patching, scaling, access controls, and security configurations across EMR and associated AWS services.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 7–8+ years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure and AWS EMR Administration.
• Core AWS Technical Stack: Strong proficiency with AWS EMR, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, and batch data environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & CI/CD: Demonstrated experience deploying cloud resources using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CodePipeline (or equivalent CI/CD tools).
• EMR Architecture: Deep technical understanding of Amazon EMR architecture, cluster life cycles, and node configurations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS, and Big Data technologies.
• Exposure to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and containerized workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Kerberos authentication and enterprise security integration.

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.