Sr. AWS EMR Admin

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS EMR Administrator to manage, optimize, and scale our cloud data infrastructure. In this hands-on technical role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters to support large-scale batch data processing pipelines. You will collaborate closely with data engineering teams and leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure reliable, secure, and automated operations across our AWS ecosystem.

• Experience: 7–8+ years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure and AWS EMR Administration.
• Core AWS Technical Stack: Strong proficiency with AWS EMR, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, and batch data environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & CI/CD: Demonstrated experience deploying cloud resources using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CodePipeline (or equivalent CI/CD tools).
• EMR Architecture: Deep technical understanding of Amazon EMR architecture, cluster life cycles, and node configurations.

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS, and Big Data technologies.
• Exposure to AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and containerized workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Kerberos authentication and enterprise security integration.

• →Cluster Management: Architecture, deploy, and maintain persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters tailored to business workloads and operational needs.
• →Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement deployment automation using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, or Terraform.
• →Storage & Compute Optimization: Manage AWS EC2, S3, and related compute and storage resources to ensure high performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• →Data Pipeline Support: Monitor and support batch data processing workloads, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and operational issues across the EMR environment.
• →System Administration: Perform routine maintenance, patching, scaling, access controls, and security configurations across EMR and associated AWS services.