Lead Cloud and Big Data Engineer

Company: US Cellular
Location: Schaumburg
Posted on: June 4, 2021

Job Description:

Lead Cloud and Big Data Engineer - INF001534

The Lead Cloud and Big Data Engineer drives quality improvement practices to ensure our technology is functioning at an efficient performance level, flexible for business needs and can scale for growth needs. Facilitate cross training practices for your team as well as others who wish to learn more about how to use these technologies. Proficient in all these technologies within our multi-functional team.

Note, the primary work functions of this position center more in an administration/engineering capacity than a development capacity. This role is not a development role. Candidates with administration and engineering experience with technologies such as Hadoop and Kafka would be ideal for this role.

Location Note: This role can be performed in any UScellular business office within our operating footprint.

Essential Functions Provide technical leadership to your team along with workload management across the team and reporting monthly statistics Ensure industry standard methodologies are leveraged when crafting, installing, administrating, maintaining, improving, monitoring, troubleshooting and train others) Participate in technical roadmap sessions for Cloud & Big Data technologies Build strong working relationships with the Architecture, Data Governance, Data Integration, Engineering and Development teams in order to represent these teams in architecture and solution discussions related to Cloud & Big Data technologies Drive standards and automation to enable developers becoming self-sufficient where possible Drive team projects following our project management processes Ensure lifecycle management activities (upgrades and patching) are accurately planned and executed, in order to know the latest and optimally support Analyze incoming use cases and help your team to develop and implement a robust solution to meet business needs Monitor and optimize performance. Drive proactive measures to track and address performance and capacity issues before our users experience it Keep abreast of industry standards and methodologies for the technologies we support Conduct approved delegated technical activities from various UScellular IS and ENG teams as it pertains to Cloud or Big Data solutions; this may include but not limited to Networking, Server, Storage activities

Required Experience Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent work or military experience

Preferred Experience Minimum 8 years administrating 4 or more of the following: Cloudera Hadoop / Confluent Kafka / AWS / MongoDB / EDB-PostgreSQL Minimum 8 years of experience with Cloud or Big data related principles, practices, and procedures Experience working with application developers to understand their needs in order to help them and their programs to access Big Data platforms.
Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum Ability to conduct presentations targeted at executive level and/or highly technical audiences Ability to develop and maintain process workflows Ability to use Jira to drive or update project activities Experience with partitioning within Hadoop Experience with crafting and handling Kafka topics Experience with handling RDBMS and NoSQL technology Experience with native AWS modules and moving applications to AWS and supporting it Experience with Cloud Center of Excellence and Cloud Maturity Models Experience with RESTful API, Services.
Experience with Linux systems and scripting languages.
Experience with functional programming (Scala, Python, Terraform)

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Location(s) : Illinois-SCHAUMBURG_IL Wisconsin-MADISON_WI, Oklahoma-TULSA_OK, Virginia-ROANOKE_VA, Illinois-CHICAGO_IL, West Virginia-MORGANTOWN_WV, Iowa-MARION_IA, North Carolina-WILMINGTON_NC, Tennessee-KNOXVILLE_TN, Iowa-URBANDALE_IA, New Hampshire-BEDFORD_NH, Maine-SOUTH PORTLAND_ME

U.S. Cellular® is an EEO employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race/color/age/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/veteran status, pregnancy or genetic information.

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