We are seeking a Remote AWS Big Data Engineer to join our team of 250+ professionals across 40 countries. The successful applicant will work with a powerhouse team to develop a complex big data application for the medical industry.

Responsibilities:

• Advising on the design of system architecture


• Configuring AWS EMR to ensure optimal performance of jobs written in JAVA


• Optimizing Apache Hadoop and Spark for performance


• Maintaining Hadoop clusters


• Troubleshooting Apache Spark running on multi-node clusters and distributed data processing framework


• Working with highly sensitive and private data

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional DevOps experience


• Significant experience with Apache Spark streaming and batch framework


• Experience managing large-scale data streaming pipelines with Hadoop


• Experience in system architecture design


• Knowledge of service oriented architecture and data standards (e.g. JSON)


• Exceptional time management skills


• Intermediate-level spoken and written English


• Bachelors degree or higher, Masters degree preferred

Compensation: Depending on skills and experience.  Employees are paid monthly via wire transfer.

This is a full-time, home-based position.