[Hiring] Senior AWS EMR Administrator @Tiger Analytics Inc.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS EMR Administrator to manage, optimize, and scale our cloud data infrastructure. In this hands-on technical role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters to support large-scale batch data processing pipelines. You will collaborate closely with data engineering teams and leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure reliable, secure, and automated operations across our AWS ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 7–8+ years of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure and AWS EMR Administration.
• Strong proficiency with AWS EMR, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, and batch data environments.
• Demonstrated experience deploying cloud resources using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and AWS CodePipeline (or equivalent CI/CD tools).
• Deep technical understanding of Amazon EMR architecture, cluster life cycles, and node configurations.

Requirements

• Architecture, deploy, and maintain persistent and transient AWS EMR clusters tailored to business workloads and operational needs.
• Design and implement deployment automation using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, or Terraform.
• Manage AWS EC2, S3, and related compute and storage resources to ensure high performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor and support batch data processing workloads, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and operational issues across the EMR environment.
• Perform routine maintenance, patching, scaling, access controls, and security configurations across EMR and associated AWS services.

Benefits

• Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows.
• Unique opportunity to be part of a small, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment.
• High degree of individual responsibility.