Data Lake Architect

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We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Data Lake Architect to join our team.  

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Data Lake Architect, specializing in all activities related to the administration of data lake servers. The scope of this project is to provide a variety of current and future IT operational support and application development services for a law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security. In addition to the specific support areas identified below, the optimal candidate will support any future technologies that are adopted by the government to improve enterprise-wide business and mission applications.  

This individual shall provide all activities related to the administration of data lake servers. Must be able to manage, build, administer, develop, test, or demonstrate the capabilities of the data lake environment. Be able to perform many data lake administrative functions across multiple servers that use microservices architecture. Must be able to define standards and techniques to guide architecture solution decisions for microservices architecture. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide data lake solutions that are built for performance, fault tolerance, and security and ensure quality data is being ingested and utilized.
• Provide senior-level knowledge to support Solr, Apache Spark, Minio, Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, Redis, Presto, Prometheus, React, and Nginx 
• Support a large microservices architecture environment with experience in adding and removing nodes, configure and tune clusters, and monitor the environment 
• Resource must be able to support the current implementation and ongoing future enhancements to data lake infrastructure.
• Provide the ability to administer the data lake infrastructure utilizing Red Hat Linux and be able to perform the following:
  • Security setup 
  • Configuration changes 
  • Tuning
  • Troubleshooting 
  • Monitoring  

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related fields 
• Must have extensive Python experience and capabilities to create Bash/shell scripts 
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes 
• Experience with MySQL and Microsoft SQL 
• Experience with Prometheus
• Experience building and maintaining data systems in the Microsoft Azure cloud
• Excellent skills in leadership and prior IT systems and systems implementation projects.
• Experience in sustaining and maintaining mobile applications which depend on web service integration (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML).  

Preferred:

• Previous experience supporting DHS and existing DHS EOD a ++

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.