Career as a Hadoop Administrator
 Hadoop Administrator has become one of the most demanding profiles in the industry. Many large industries, based on big infrastructure are ready to huge salaries for the hadoop administrator profile.
 Let’s Understand basics of this role, An Hadoop administrator is responsible for managing resources and hadoop clusters in overall Hadoop ecosystem. You can say that it is backend job as it is not visible to every other IT department in the company but still performs a very significant role in collaboration, even if end user cannot notice it.
 Mastery in managing and upgrading hadoop clusters may include multiple tasks such as installing and monitoring hadoop clusters. It is certain that every task under this role is for improving efficiency and continued operations of Hadoop cluster thus helps overall performance of an organization
 It requires good technical skills, some of the basic technical skills required for a Hadoop administrator:
Expert in UNIX/LINUX OS as Hadoop runs on Linux OS. Good knowledge of automation and configuration tools required for different types of installation Well versed with Monitoring tools like Nagios and Ambari. Knowledge of core Java is an Ad on but not mandatory
Operating system concepts like scheduling, process management etc followed by networking basics Well versed with shell scripting Knowledge of hadoop components like Apache Hive, Apache Mahout and upgraded with latest versions, including add and remove nodes.
 Since this role offers multiple tasks and you are open to choose your mastery over certain set of tools as a specialization, Hadoop career is vast and not focused on limited aspect of tasks. In near future of IT technologies knowledge of hadoop clusters is expected to give birth to other specialization for making IT sector and its infrastructure more robust.
 Recent studies shows that how it has been taking over IT sector and candidates are getting hired in big giants of IT:
 In current date, having knowledge of hadoop clusters opens up gate for multiple profiles and with good paying salaries, some of the profiles are:
Big Data Engineer Data Science tools and applications engineer IT Storage Administrator Senior System Administrator
Hadoop System Administrator Data Management Analyst Data Base developer Business Service Administrator
 There are many companies, platforms and training institutes, who gives training to enhance your skill in the field and enhance value of your skills in the market.