Role & responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and maintain Cloudera Manager and CDH/CDP clusters across on-prem and hybrid environments.
- Monitor cluster health, troubleshoot issues, and perform capacity planning and performance tuning.
- Implement security controls including Kerberos authentication, Sentry/Ranger policies, and encryption for compliance.
- Manage backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
- Collaborate with data engineers and ETL teams to support ingestion pipelines (Informatica, Kafka) and processing frameworks (Spark, Hive).
- Automate cluster operations using Ansible, shell scripts, and workflow orchestration tools.
Preferred candidate profile:
The Senior Cloudera Administrator will manage and optimize Cloudera-based big data platform, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across HDFS, Hive, Impala, and Spark clusters. This role involves implementing governance and compliance controls, supporting real-time and batch data processing, and enabling integration with data ingestion tools like Informatica and Kafka. The position also requires automation of cluster operations and readiness for hybrid cloud adoption.