Big Data Infrastructure Engineer
From smartphone capabilities like Digital Key to connected rooms that allow for integrated entertainment, temperature and lighting controls, Hilton’s Global Technology team is building the hospitality experience of the future – for our guests, owners and Team Members. Through innovative technology development and deployment, this team ensures Hilton has the technology needed to support our continued global growth while remaining at the forefront of hospitality technology innovation.
What will I be doing?
The Enterprise Technology division supports key functions across the business by utilizing innovative solutions to provide frictionless and timely access to high-quality, integrated data. The team consists of skilled specialists in data engineering, run operations, data governance, data quality and data modeling. Working with the Senior Manager Run Operations, you will maintain the organization’s big data ecosystem. Interested? Read on!
More specifically, you will:
- Set up and maintain data infrastructure stack within Hadoop, EMR and Hadoop.
- Document guidance around design, architecture patterns and development standards and actively socialize across the Big Data community.
- Propose enhancements and improvements ahead of the business asks.
- Adhere to the project plan and finding opportunities to shorten the support/enhancement timeline for Run Operations.
- Demonstrate deep technical knowledge across the Hadoop ecosystem and its various components.
What are we looking for?
We believe success in this role will demonstrate itself through the following attributes and skills:
- Deploy the Hadoop File System (HDFS), and peripheral technologies in its ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Pig, Hbase/Cassandra, Flume, Zookeeper) using both automated toolsets as well as manual processes
- Maintain, support, and upgrade Hadoop and EMR clusters Supervise jobs, queues, and HDFS capacity using Zookeeper and vendor-specific front-end cluster management tools
- Balance, commission and decommission cluster nodes
- Apply security (Kerberos / Open LDAP/SAML) linking with Active Directory and/or LDAP
- Work with users to view job progress via web interface
- Onboarding users to use Hadoop – configuration, access control, disk quota, permissions etc.
- Partner with virtualization team to provision / manage HDP cluster components
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects with varying deadlines
To fulfill this role successfully, you should demonstrate the following minimum qualifications:
- Seven (7) years of experience in Technology in data/platform architecture
- Three (3) years of meaningful experience in big data related technologies
- Three (3) years of Linux/Unix administration preferably on AWS cloud environment
- Three (3) years of experience with (Cloudera/Hortonworks/EMR) Hadoop Administration
- One (1) year technical experience managing Hadoop cluster infrastructure environments (e.g. data center infrastructure) that utilized at least 20 data nodes
- Extensive experience in Hadoop ecosystem including Spark, MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, HBase, and Zeppelin
- Experience scripting in one or more of the following: Python, bash, PowerShell, Perl, Java
It would be helpful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:
- Bachelor’s Degree, or Associate’s Degree with six (6+) years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED with twelve (12+) years of Technology related experience
- Nine (9) or more years of experience in Technology or related field
- One (1) year experience with Puppet and/or Chef
- One (1) year virtualization experience in any of VMware / Hyper-V / KVM
- One (1) year experience with Hadoop-specific automation (e.g. blueprints)
- Functional experience in hospitality
- Certified Hadoop Admin (Hortonworks/Cloudera)
What is it like working for Hilton?
Hilton is the leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and mid-priced hotels. For nearly a century, Hilton has offered business and leisure travelers the finest in accommodations, service, amenities and value. Hilton is dedicated to continuing its tradition of providing exceptional guest experiences across its global brands. Our vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality unites us as a team to create remarkable hospitality experiences around the world every day. And, our amazing Team Members are at the heart of it all!
We will ensure that qualified individuals with protected disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions of his or her role, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
