Greenplum Administrator

Title: Greenplum SME

Duration: 12+ months

Location: Baltimore, MD

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 setup 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 to 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.