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RibbitZ

Cloudera Platform Engineer

United States

USD 48 / hour

  • Remote
  • Contractual
  • 3–5 Years
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Job Description

Job Title: Cloudera Platform Engineer
Work Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 4-6 Years
Rate: $48/hr
Visa: No H1b

Job Summary

We are looking for a Cloudera Platform Engineer to manage day-to-day operations, monitoring, and support of our Big Data Platform on CDP (Cloudera Data Platform). The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Cloudera ecosystem and will be responsible for production support, platform stability, and operational excellence in a cloud environment.

Required Experience

  • 4-6 years of experience in Big Data Platform / Cloud Operations / Infrastructure Support roles.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Cloudera ecosystem (CDH / CDP Public & Private Cloud).

Technical Skills - Must Have

1. Cloudera CDPExpertise:
Strong administration and operational knowledge of CDP services: CDE (Data Engineering), CDW (Data Warehouse), CDF (Data Flow), CAI (AI).Experience with Cloudera Manager, Hue, Impala, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Ranger, Atlas.
Hands-on in service health checks, log analysis, and service restarts.
2. Cloud & Infrastructure:
Good understanding of Cloud platforms - AWS / Azure / GCP basics: IAM, S3 / ADLS / GCS, VPC / VNet, Security Groups, Networking.Familiarity with Linux administration and shell scripting.
3. Kubernetes & Containerization:
Working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts - Pod lifecycle, deployments, services, resource requests/limits.Hands-on in pod-level troubleshooting - kubectl logs, describe, exec, resource usage analysis.
4. Monitoring & Operations:
Experience with monitoring & alerting tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch / Azure Monitor, Cloudera Observability.Experience in building dashboards, setting up alerts and responding to incidents.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Execute day-to-day platform operations - health checks, service monitoring, and resource optimization.
  • Provide L2 Production Support - Handle P2/P3 incidents, perform initial triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and escalate to L3/vendor as per SLA.
  • Support deployments, upgrades, and patching activities for CDP platform and related services.
  • Perform platform monitoring, issue triage, and proactive alert resolution to ensure high availability.Follow and improve Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Runbooks, and Knowledge Base articles.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering, DevOps, and Security teams for platform onboarding and access management (Ranger policies).Manage tickets via ITSM tools (Jira, ServiceNow).
  • Participate in on-call rotation / shift support if required.

Good to Have

  • Cloudera Certification (CCA / CCP / CDP Administrator).
  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Python.Knowledge of ITIL process - Incident, Problem, Change Management.Experience in auto-scaling, cost optimization in cloud.

Soft Skills

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a remote setup and as part of a distributed team.