Greenplum Administrator

Job Description

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.

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