What employers expect from Hadoop Administrators?<\/h1>\n

In this post\u00a0we will discuss what employers expect from Hadoop Administrators. We also have a video version of this post, click here if you prefer to watch the video<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hadoop environments are distributed systems and you could potentially have hundreds or even thousands of nodes working together and also you have lot of tools in the Hadoop ecosystem which means there is a good probability for things to go wrong. In most companies Hadoop is at the center of everything and this means you can not afford to have issues in your Hadoop production environments. For this reason most employers look for Hadoop Administrators who have well rounded knowledge about Hadoop and tools in the Hadoop ecosystem and also understand how they work behind the scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are an aspiring Hadoop Administrator it helps if you know what employers like to see in a candidate when they interview someone for a Hadoop administrator position and what is the expectation from you as a Hadoop Administrator when you land on the job. So here is what you need to know in terms of what is expected from Hadoop Administrators<\/span><\/p>\n

Certifications like Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop in short (CCAH) certainly puts you and your resume on the spotlight and it gives you instant credibility.<\/strong> Keep in mind, being certified does not mean you are guaranteed a job nor it means that you will be effective in your job. Most employers definitely evaluate the candidate before offering a job. Having all things equal between 2 candidates, an employer will prefer the candidate with the certification to the candidate without any certification.<\/span><\/p>\n

When students and members of the Hadoop In Real World community asked us to create a Hadoop Administration course we went ahead with our research. Soon we realized that the courses out there does not focus on any of the critical elements which we just looked at. As said before almost all courses just touched on architecture, installation, starting and stopping services and that is it. It was shocking. So we decided to design and create a course which will really help aspiring Hadoop Administrators to manage and administer real world Hadoop cluster in real production environments with confidence and stress free.<\/span><\/p>\n

We cover all the admin essentials in the Hadoop Administrator in Real World course from getting to know your cluster, starting, stopping services, adding & removing nodes to and from the cluster, \u00a0recovering from data losses etc. That is not the exciting part though, that is just the scratching the tip of the iceberg. We are more interested in teaching our students the critical functionalities like installing and configuring high availability, installing and configuring Kerberos, installing and configuring different schedulers like fair and capacity schedulers etc. and let’s be clear when we install any component we teach manual installation and manually configuring all elements, this way you understand exactly what is happening behind the scenes. Which means, our students can survive even when there is no cluster management tools like Cloudera Manager or Ambari. Also, we have covered so many tips, tricks and shortcuts in the course which will help you with day to day administration tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hadoop Administrator in Real World course is CCAH certification ready. Meaning we have covered all the necessary components needed to clear Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop in short (CCAH) exam.<\/span><\/p>\n