Experience: 3 - 8 Years

Location: Bengaluru/Bangalore

Education: UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization  

                   PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization

Industry Type: IT-Software/ Software Services

Functional Area: Systems, EDP, MIS

Job De scri ption:
Principal Engineer

* Position: Principal Engineer, Grid Services
* Location: Bangalore, India

Yahoo! Grid Services is searching for a qualified Systems Engineer to
monitor and maintain our production grid (utility computing) clusters.
Each cluster is thousands of nodes with petabytes of high-value data,
running a distributed file system, map-reduce processing framework,
and scheduling software. These resources are used to drive backend
processing of various Yahoo! services.

You will be working with various Yahoo! teams to deploy their processes
on the grid and services are delivered as per the predetermined SLA.

The primary computing platform is Hadoop, an Apache Software Foundation
open source project for massively scalable utility computing. Yahoo! is
a major contributor to Hadoop and related projects. You will have the
opportunity to work with a significant open source project that will be
adopted by some of the largest software and Internet companies in the world.

The Grid team combines powerful open source packages, including Hadoop,
a huge quantity of compute and storage resources, petabytes of data from
a variety of sources, and support services to provide a utility computing
service platform for the company.

Responsibilities

* Based on operational and project guidelines, work with independence
and discretion regarding how to carry out tasks.
* Take initiative to improve processes and help to plan for the
future of the service.
* Monitor cluster health and performance, use critical thinking to
find areas for improvement.
* Invent better ways to manage the existing clusters, via scri pting
and tools development.
* Hardware and facility capacity planning, provisioning new resources.
* Application profiling and performance analysis.
* Real-time problem diagnosis/resolution on live systems.
* Data load monitoring.
* Systems monitoring and alerting.
* Participate in a group pager rotation for emergencies for oncall
support.
* Devise schemes to transfer terabytes of data from diverse locations
securely and reliably.
* Reporting (html, e-mail, etc).
* Resolve all operation issues, escalating engineering defects to the
development organization.
* Documentation on the running systems and their associated configurations.

Minimum Job Qualifications

* Experience as a Unix systems engineer in managing large installations
* Strong shell scri pting skills in at least one of awk, perl, or python.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of explaining
simple procedures in writing or verbally; good phone skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications

* BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent).
* Minimum 5 years experience as a Unix systems engineer
* Knowledge and work experience with Java and Java profilers.
* Cluster computing platforms like Condor, Torque, Maui / Moab, Sun Grid Engine.
* Experience with programming models for large clusters: MPI, PVM, etc.

Desired Candidate Profile:
Minimum Job Qualifications

* Experience as a Unix systems engineer in managing large installations
* Strong shell scri pting skills in at least one of awk, perl, or python.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of explaining
simple procedures in writing or verbally; good phone skills.

Company Profile:
At Yahoo!, we look at life in a different way. Everything inspires us: from a train ticket to the beverage we drink. Equations, Algorithms, Indexes, Terabytes of data; we see them everywhere. No wonder our product teams in Bangalore have been able to churn out a host of innovations: Yahoo! Podcasts, Yahoo! Audio Search, Yahoo! Hotjobs, Yahoo! SpamGuard+, Behavioral Targeting, consumer centric data driven products and marketing applications to name a few. So to name a few. So, if you wish to get aboard the innovation engine, just walk-in at the below mentioned venue.

Contact Details

Company Name: Yahoo Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.

Website: Not Mentioned

Executive Name: harshita@yahoo-inc.com

Address:

Yahoo Software Development India Pvt Ltd 4th Floor,Esquire Centre #9, M.G.Road Bangalore - Karnataka ,India 560001

Telephone: 080-30774346

Fax: 56949414

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