Greenplum Administrator

Technogen; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Technogen, located in Baltimore, MD, is seeking a skilled database administrator with expertise in Greenplum. The role involves day-to-day administration of Greenplum databases, collaboration with development teams, and ensuring system health through effective monitoring.

Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and experience with Hadoop distributions. This position offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment focused on delivering IT solutions across various sectors.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience managing Greenplum databases.
• Knowledge of Hadoop distributions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer Greenplum databases and ensure system health.
• Collaborate with teams for architectural design recommendations.
• Implement automated methods for consistent Greenplum configuration.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Complex technology discussions

Greenplum database administration

Hadoop distribution experience (Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR)

In-depth knowledge of GreenPlum architecture

Performance monitoring and capacity planning

Job description

TechnoGen, Inc. (formerly known as SYSCOM Technologies) is a Proven Leader in providing full IT Services, Software Development and Solutions for 12+ years. TechnoGen is a Small & Woman Owned Minority Business with GSA Advantage Certification. We have offices in VA, MD & Offshore development centers in India. We have successfully executed 100+ projects for clients ranging from small business and non-profits to Fortune 50 companies and federal, state and local agencies.

TechnoGen leadership has experience guiding highly skilled and certified professionals delivering end-to-end IT and Business consulting services projects in public and commercial sectors across the globe.

Job Description

Duration: 12+ months

Required Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to participate in complex technology discussions which lead to elegant solutions appropriate for our customer’s environment.
• Day-to-day administration of Greenplum databases.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, and release teams, providing architectural design recommendations, driving standards for effective Greenplum transition to production operations.
• Hadoop distribution experience, such as Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, etc.
• In-depth knowledge of the GreenPlum architecture.
• Drive end-to-end availability, performance monitoring, and capacity planning for Greenplum.
• Implement automated methods and industry best practices for consistent installation and configuration of Greenplum for production and non-production environments.
• Conduct technical reviews and walkthroughs of system design documentation with development and design team members.
• Manage backup and recovery functions for a Greenplum data warehouse environment.
• Proactively monitor and set up alerting mechanism for both database and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability.
• Create users, establish database security, create resource queue, performance tuning in terms of query execution, etc.
• Plan and coordinate system upgrades.
• Perform capacity monitoring and short and long-term capacity planning in collaboration with development resources, system administrators and system architects.
• Manage Disaster Recovery environment.
• Identify and resolve incidents and address user problems/concerns.
• Generate reports of all processes and jobs currently running on Greenplum with details like users, start and end time, CPU usage and time, memory usage, IO time, locking, etc.

Additional Information

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