HIVE Support Engineer

Blu Omega is seeking a HIVE Support Engineer to support a federal program. The HIVE Support Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day operational health of the Hive analytics environment, ensuring performance, stability, and reliability of the platform that supports FinCEN analytics. This role is technical and operational in nature, focused on system optimization, troubleshooting, and automation, rather than advanced software engineering.

Location: Remote
Clearance Needed: Active Secret

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily operational support for Hive environments.
• Monitor system performance, stability, and availability.
• Investigate and resolve Hive-related incidents and user issues.
• Optimize Hive performance through partitioning, indexing, and query tuning.
• Create and maintain Hive schemas, tables, and database objects.
• Perform routine system maintenance and upgrades.
• Build and maintain automated operational workflows.
• Support batch job monitoring and execution.
• Collaborate with analytics and engineering teams to resolve complex issues.
• Ensure Hive environments meet business and compliance requirements.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in data platform or analytics support roles.
• Strong experience with Apache Hive and HiveQL.
• Advanced SQL skills.

Requested Experience:

• Hive performance optimization
• Data partitioning and indexing
• Schema design and data modeling
• Experience building automated workflows using:
• Python
• Shell scripting (or similar)
• Working knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem, including:
• HDFS
• YARN
• MapReduce
• Spark

Nice to Have:

• Experience with other big data tools and platforms such as Presto, Hive-on-Spark, or Impala.
• Familiarity with cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of security and data governance policies for federal agencies.
• Prior experience working on federal government projects or with compliance standards such as FISMA or FedRAMP.

Salary Range: $70K - $130K
Our final salary offer will be based on several factors, including depth of technical skills, work experience, education, certifications, and clearance

What Blu Omega Can Offer You:

• Competitive benefits including Health Insurance, 401K w/ match, Paid Time Off and more.
• Results driven culture that embrace our core values
• Rewarding work contributing to our Nation's mission critical programs

Blu Omega is a Woman Owned Small Business Federal Technology services firm headquartered in Washington DC and supporting clients nationally. We provide Technology solutions for enterprise and government customers. Our team has a past performance in a diverse range of programs including those for Data Management, Cloud/Infrastructure, Software Development and Enterprise Applications.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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