Senior Big Data & AWS Platform Engineer

TechDigital Group

St. Louis (MO)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

TechDigital Group is seeking a Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator to lead hands-on administration of large-scale Hadoop and Kafka environments in a cloud-first setup. The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and scalable data platform operations across AWS, with expertise in Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in system administration, deep AWS knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills to ensure high availability and peak performance of

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in system administration with 5+ years in big data and cloud environments.
  • Proven track record managing large Hadoop clusters and Kafka environments.
  • Strong hands-on AWS experience and infrastructure as code expertise.
  • Agentic AI experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure.
  • Administer AWS services: EC2, S3, EMR, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda.
  • Install, tune, and maintain Hadoop components (HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark).
  • Install, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters and topics.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, or Confluent Center.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines for infra and platform deployments.
  • Automate tasks with Python/Shell; collaborate with DevOps.

Skills

Cloud architecture
Hadoop admin
Kafka administration
Automation & IaC
CI/CD pipelines
Monitoring & incident response
Performance tuning
Scripting (Python, Shell)

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Tools

AWS
EC2
S3
EMR
EKS
IAM
VPC
CloudWatch
Lambda
Hadoop
Hive
Spark
HDFS
YARN
Kafka
Terraform
CloudFormation

Job description

TechDigital Group is seeking a Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator to lead hands-on administration of large-scale Hadoop and Kafka environments in a cloud-first setup. The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and scalable data platform operations across AWS, with expertise in Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in system administration, deep AWS knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills to ensure high availability and peak performance of

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