Systems Engineer
Bowie, MD

Job Description

Overview

Inovalon is a leading technology company that combines advanced cloud-based data analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to achieve meaningful insight and impact in clinical and quality outcomes, utilization, and financial performance across the healthcare landscape. Inovalon's unique achievement of value is delivered through the effective progression of Turning Data into Insight, and Insight into Action.

The Big Data Engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the software, hardware, network, and computing technologies that power all of Inovalon's Big Data services. We are the foundation upon which Inovalon's innovations are built, from high octane data analytics horsepower to insightful healthcare data solutions that will change the future. You seek a challenge, demand excellence of yourself, and harbor a fierce desire to produce infallible solutions.

Responsibilities

* Contribute to evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique services and solutions;
* Implement best-in-industry, innovative technologies that will expand Inovalon's infrastructure through robust, scalable, adrenaline-fueled solutions;
* Participate in the enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy;
* Focused on service reliability and sustainability;
* Develop and execute plans for complex systems backed by excellence, confidence, and thorough engineering analysis;
* Leverage metrics to manage the server fleet and complex computing systems to drive automation, improvement, and performance;
* Advanced scripting experience;
* General understanding of networking and network principals;
* VMware platform products knowledge and experience including vSphere administration; and
* Experience with Agile software design methodologies, information system architecture, objects oriented design, and software design patterns; and
* All candidates to comply with all security policies/procedures.

Qualifications

* Experience engineering Hadoop solutions;
* Technology experience required; Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Ranger, zookeeper, NIFI;
* Other technologies good to have; Spark, Phoenix, Spring Batch, Accumulo;
* In depth experience with one of the major Hadoop distributions;
* Java scripting and application support experience strongly desired;
* Experience with virtualization technologies required;
* 5-10 years' experience with Unix management, complex computing platforms, and/or cutting-edge technologies involving virtualization, distribution, and high performance computing;
* Experience with Cisco UCS is a plus;
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent experience; and
* Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, and infrastructure operations.

Inovalon provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.