Moqthar Ali Syed
Summary
Experienced Lead Big Data Administrator with over 9 years of hands-on expertise in leading & managing large-scale Hadoop ecosystems (HDP/CDH) in production environments. Skilled in cluster setup, performance tuning, and implementing enterprise-grade security using Kerberos, Ranger, and LDAP. Proven ability to automate administration tasks using Shell and Ansible, while ensuring high availability, compliance, and data integrity across multi-tenant environments and a Certified AWS Solutions Architect. Experienced in Microsoft Azure and Familiarity with GCP.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Application Architect(Computer Systems Analyst)
Artech LLC
Chicago, IL
01.2026 - Current
- Designed and implemented scalable application architectures to enhance system performance in Big Data ecosystems.
- Managed platform operations across all environments, including upgrades, bug fixes, deployments, metrics and monitoring for resolution and forecasting, disaster recovery, and incident, problem, and capacity management
- Served as a liaison between client partners and vendors, in coordination with project managers, to deliver technical solutions that address user needs.
- Work with technologies including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Impala, Hive, HBase, and related components.
- Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the core framework.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and project scope.
- Led architectural reviews to ensure alignment with industry standards and best practices.
- Applied automation and DevOps tools including Ansible, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Github etc
- Managed Hadoop ecosystem services such as Hive, HBase, Pig, Sqoop, and Oozie.
- Scheduled and monitored Hadoop jobs using Oozie and controlled job priorities in YARN.
- Integrated Kerberos authentication for securing the Hadoop cluster.
- Integrated Spark applications with Hive Metastore and HDFS, ensuring schema consistency and metadata management.
Lead Hadoop/Cloud Administrator
Baigan Solutions
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
03.2020 - 11.2025
- Managed, Installed, configured, and maintained Hadoop clusters including HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce.
- Performed regular cluster health checks and monitored node status using various monitoring tools.
- Enforced encryption at rest using HDFS Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and in-transit using TLS/SSL, enhancing protection of sensitive data across ingestion and processing layers.
- Performed data backup and recovery using DistCp, rSync and Snapshots.
- Collaborated with security and compliance teams during internal and external audits.
- Provided expert-level application and system support for data and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau etc), including troubleshooting, patching, and vendor coordination to resolve complex issues.
- Participated in capacity planning and hardware expansion by analyzing usage trends.
- Diagnosed and resolved issues related to DataNode failures, HDFS corruption, and YARN job crashes.
- Managed Azure resources including virtual machines, storage accounts, and virtual networks.
- Monitored resources using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and custom alerts to ensure availability and performance.
- Configured and secured Azure Storage (Blob, File, and Table) for application and analytics needs.
Hadoop Administrator
Elan Technologies
Austin, TX
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Install, Configure and maintain Multi-node Hadoop clusters.
- Involved in installation, configuration, supporting and managing Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera Distributions Hadoop (CDH) and Hortonworks Distribution (HDP).
- Responsible for all configuration changes and applying patches on the cluster.
- Configured Apache Ranger policies for HDFS, Hive, and Yarn, enabling fine-grained, role-based access control aligned with data governance and compliance requirements.
- Responsible for all customer issues linked with Big Data Hadoop cluster during onshore hours and providing support through service now ticketing tool for various severity tickets.
- Hands on experience on Cluster monitoring tools like Cloudera Manager and Ambari.
- Configuring SQOOP to import data from external database - MYSQL.
- Worked with both Shell and Bash Scripting languages to automate day to day activities.
- User management on Hadoop for HDFS and Map Reduce.
- Supported technical team members for automation, installation and configuration tasks.
- Work with user to resolve issues related to access and jobs running on cluster.
- Imported/exported data from RDBMS to HDFS using Data Ingestion tools like Sqoop.
- Commissioning and Decommissioning nodes to Hadoop cluster.
Linux/Hadoop Administrator
NPV Staffing/Emergsoft LLC
Bellevue, WA
01.2017 - 04.2019
- Monitored system performance and resource utilization using tools like top, vmstat, and iostat to identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks.
- Assisted with user and group account management, including permissions, quotas, and SSH key configurations.
- Performed routine log reviews in /var/log and applied basic troubleshooting to resolve common errors and service issues.
- Supported patching and package management on RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu systems using yum, dnf, and apt.
- Collaborated with senior administrators to implement and maintain scheduled backups, cron jobs, and disk usage monitoring.
- Assisted in configuring and maintaining network services such as DNS, DHCP, and NTP under supervision.
- Participated in server provisioning and initial configuration, including hostname setup, network interfaces, and firewall rules (iptables/firewalld).
- Provided Tier-1/Tier-2 support by investigating and resolving Linux system incidents escalated from the help desk.
- Documented standard operating procedures (SOPs) for common administrative tasks to improve knowledge sharing within the team.
- Supported monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Nagios, Zabbix, or systemd journal alerts) to proactively address service disruptions.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Governors State University
University Park, IL12-2016
Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNTU
Hyderabad, India04-2013
Skills
- HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)
- MapReduce
- Pig
- Sqoop
- Kafka
- Flume
- Zookeeper
- Apache Ranger / Sentry
- HDFS Encryption & KMS
- Grafana
- GCP
- DistCp / rsync for Data Transfers
- Azure Data Lake / AWS S3 Integration with Hadoop
- Autosys
- ServiceNow
- Jira
- Data Ingestion & Export Automation with Sqoop / Flume
- Zabbix
- NewRelic
- Terraform
- Apache Nifi
- AWS
- YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator)
- Hive
- HBase
- Linux
- Tableau
- Nifi
- Oozie
- Kerberos Authentication
- LDAP / Active Directory Integration
- Cloudera Manager / Ambari
- Shell Scripting (Bash)
- Crontab / Scheduled Jobs Management
- PySpark
- CI/CD with Jenkins
- Git / GitHub / GitLab
- Ansible
- Docker
- Jira/Confluence
- Python
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- Microsoft Azure
- Apache Spark
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Timeline
Application Architect(Computer Systems Analyst)
Artech LLC
01.2026 - Current
Lead Hadoop/Cloud Administrator
Baigan Solutions
03.2020 - 11.2025
Hadoop Administrator
Elan Technologies
04.2019 - 01.2020
Linux/Hadoop Administrator
NPV Staffing/Emergsoft LLC
01.2017 - 04.2019
Master of Science - Computer Science
Governors State University
Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
JNTU