Technogen is hiring a 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.