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EKS & Spark Performance Optimization Engineer
Experience: 6-8 Years
Location: PAN India
We are seeking a highly skilled EKS & Spark Performance Optimization Engineer with strong expertise in AWS cloud technologies, Amazon EKS, EMR, and Apache Spark performance tuning. The ideal candidate will be responsible for optimizing large-scale data processing workloads, improving cluster efficiency, reducing execution costs, and enhancing application performance in cloud-native environments.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and optimize big data processing solutions on AWS.
Manage and optimize workloads running on Amazon EKS and Amazon EMR.
Perform Spark application performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
Analyze Spark jobs and optimize resource allocation, memory management, executors, and partitioning strategies.
Enhance cluster utilization, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Monitor and troubleshoot production workloads running on Kubernetes and EMR environments.
Implement best practices for containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native deployments.
Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and platform teams to improve application performance.
Optimize AWS infrastructure for high-performance distributed computing workloads.
Create operational dashboards, monitoring solutions, and performance reports.
Required Skills
Core Skills
Strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
Expertise in Apache Spark performance tuning and optimization.
Experience with Amazon EMR and large-scale data processing workloads.
Strong understanding of distributed computing concepts and cluster management.
Experience troubleshooting Spark job failures, memory issues, and performance bottlenecks.
AWS Technologies
Amazon EKS
Amazon EMR
EC2
S3
CloudWatch
IAM
VPC
AWS Cost Optimization
Data Engineering & Performance Tuning
Spark SQL Optimization
Executor and Driver Tuning
Partitioning and Caching Strategies
Shuffle Optimization
Resource Allocation and Cluster Sizing
Job Monitoring and Troubleshooting
JVM Performance Tuning
Performance Benchmarking
Container & DevOps
Kubernetes
Docker
CI/CD Pipelines
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation preferred)
Monitoring and Observability Tools
Preferred Skills
Experience with Databricks or AWS Glue.
Exposure to Hadoop ecosystem components.
Knowledge of Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools.
Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
Understanding of Data Lake architectures and modern analytics platforms.
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