Tiger Analytics

Sr. AWS EMR Admin

Tiger Analytics  •  Canada (Remote)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

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.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • 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.

Required Qualifications

  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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.

Benefits

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics

About Tiger Analytics

In a world rife with complexity, we help our customers cut through uncertainty, plan strategically, and execute confidently. We work with them to strategize and operationalize Data and AI-led transformation programs that deliver real value at scale.

Our deep understanding of business value chains, agile operating models, platforms approach, and strategic hyperscaler partnerships allow us to engineer cutting-edge Data & AI solutions. We go beyond standard playbooks and best practices, and forge new ones.

If you’re keen to reimagine what AI can do for some of the toughest problems out there, come join our team of 5000+ brilliant technologists and consultants. Explore opportunities across our offices in the US, India, Canada, Mexico, UK, Spain, Singapore and Australia.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
Year Founded
2011
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