Hadoop/Cassandra Administrator job at Accenture

Job Description

If you join Accenture, you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. You will work on solving our clients’ most complex problems. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, System Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Individuals in this role will be part of our System Integration Consulting group, our Information Management Practice, and our Data Management Specialty.

Systems Integration Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance.

Responsibilities include the following:

Configure, administer, monitor, manage Hadoop / NoSQL clusters
Troubleshoot production issues with Hadoop/NoSQL
Tune Hadoop / Cassandra clusters
Backup/Restore
Data store administration

In addition, individuals in this role are also part of Accenture Digital, Data & Analytics, which is part of Accenture's Technology Growth Platform (TGP). TGP offers a full range of global delivery services - from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Do you have a passion for emerging technologies and a desire to change the way business gets done? Do you want to participate in pioneering implementations of new solutions for some of the most successful and interesting companies in the world? Accenture DD&A is the technology research and development organization within Accenture. We turn bold ideas into game changing results for Accenture and our clients. If you answered yes to the questions above, then a career in Accenture DD&A may be for you.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum 1 year managing, tuning and sizing either a Hadoop or Cassandra(DataStax) cluster in an operational environment
Minimum 1 year of Unix experience
Minimum 1 year of Scripting
Minimum 1 year of knowledge with OS and Infrastructure (Cloud and On-Premise)
Minimum of a Bachelors Degree

Preferred Skills:

Full life cycle Development
Industry experience (financial services, resources, healthcare, government, products, communications, high tech)
Experience leading teams

Professional Skill Requirements:

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Desire to work in an information systems environment
Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Excellent leadership and management skills
Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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