Senio Bag Data AWS Administrator St Louis Missouri

W2 Role:
Hiring: Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator
Location: Onsite – St. Louis, MO

We are looking for a Senior Big Data / AWS Administrator with 10+ years of experience managing enterprise-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. If you have deep expertise in AWS, Hadoop, Kafka, and modern DevOps practices, we’d love to connect!

Key Responsibilities
✅ Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure
✅ Administer AWS services including EC2, S3, EMR, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
✅ Manage and optimize Hadoop ecosystems (HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark).
✅ Install, configure, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters for high-performance streaming.
✅ Build and automate infrastructure using Terraform/CloudFormation.
✅ Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate administrative tasks using Python/Shell scripting.
✅ Monitor, troubleshoot, optimize performance, and ensure platform security & high availability.

Required Skills
✔️ 10+ years of System Administration experience
✔️ 5+ years of hands-on experience with Big Data & Cloud platforms
✔️ Strong AWS Administration expertise
✔️ Hadoop Administration (HDFS, Hive, Spark, YARN)
✔️ Apache Kafka Administration
✔️ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
✔️ CI/CD, Automation, Monitoring & Performance Tuning
✔️ Agentic AI experience is a plus.