Job description
Cloudera Platform Engineer
Role Summary
We are seeking a skilled Cloudera Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise big data platforms. The role involves managing the Cloudera ecosystem, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance for data-intensive applications, while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, and DevOps teams.
Key Responsibilities
Deploy, configure, and manage the Cloudera platform (CDH/Cloudera Data Platform) and related components (HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka)
Monitor and optimize cluster performance, scalability, and security
Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies for Cloudera clusters
Work with DevOps teams to automate deployment and management using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Troubleshoot complex issues in Hadoop ecosystem components and integrations
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards
Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to support ingestion, processing, and analytics workloads
Maintain patching, upgrades, and version control of the Cloudera environment
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera platform (CDH/CDP) and Hadoop ecosystem
Expertise in HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka, and YARN
Proficiency in Linux/Unix administration
Experience with scripting languages (Shell, Python, Bash)
Knowledge of cluster monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting
Understanding of security frameworks (Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry)
Good to Have
Experience with cloud deployments of Cloudera (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) for big data workloads
Exposure to CI/CD for data platforms
Understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and analytics workflows
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
5+ years of experience in Hadoop/Cloudera platform engineering or big data administration
Qualification
Cloudera Platform Engineer
Role Summary
We are seeking a skilled Cloudera Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise big data platforms. The role involves managing the Cloudera ecosystem, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance for data-intensive applications, while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, and DevOps teams.
Key Responsibilities
Deploy, configure, and manage the Cloudera platform (CDH/Cloudera Data Platform) and related components (HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka)
Monitor and optimize cluster performance, scalability, and security
Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies for Cloudera clusters
Work with DevOps teams to automate deployment and management using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Troubleshoot complex issues in Hadoop ecosystem components and integrations
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards
Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to support ingestion, processing, and analytics workloads
Maintain patching, upgrades, and version control of the Cloudera environment
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera platform (CDH/CDP) and Hadoop ecosystem
Expertise in HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka, and YARN
Proficiency in Linux/Unix administration
Experience with scripting languages (Shell, Python, Bash)
Knowledge of cluster monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting
Understanding of security frameworks (Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry)
Good to Have
Experience with cloud deployments of Cloudera (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) for big data workloads
Exposure to CI/CD for data platforms
Understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and analytics workflows
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
5+ years of experience in Hadoop/Cloudera platform engineering or big data administration
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Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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