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The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability.\nThis is not a traditional system administration role - it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating on a scale. 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