We are looking for an experienced Technology Engineer with strong expertise in Cloudera CDP, Hadoop ecosystem, DevOps, OpenShift, and CI/CD to support enterprise Technology Platforms & Data Platforms initiatives.
The ideal candidate should possess hands-on production support experience, platform engineering expertise, automation capabilities, and strong knowledge of containerized data platforms. This role requires ownership of Cloudera platform administration, performance optimization, infrastructure automation, observability, and CI/CD implementation within large-scale enterprise environments.
RequirementsKey Responsibilities
- Provide Tier-2 production support for enterprise Cloudera CDP environments.
- Install, configure, administer, and maintain Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) clusters.
- Perform installation, upgrades, patching, and maintenance of CDP 7.1.9 (or latest versions).
- Administer and support Cloudera Data Services (CDS) 1.5.4 / 1.5.5 and latest releases.
- Enable and maintain enterprise security controls across Cloudera CDP environments.
- Optimize Hadoop cluster performance, resource utilization, and overall platform stability.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to optimize Spark workloads and improve application performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to:
- Spark Jobs
- Hive Jobs
- YARN Jobs
- Support CDP containerization using Cloudera Data Services.
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure automation for platform operations.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for analytics and data engineering workloads.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational tasks.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for platform health.
- Automate security, compliance, and regulatory validation processes.
- Plan and execute automated patch management across enterprise environments.
- Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, Data Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure reliable platform operations.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous engineering improvements.
- Strong hands-on experience supporting Cloudera CDP production environments.
- Experience with:
- Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
- CDP 7.1.9 or latest versions
- Cloudera Data Services (CDS) 1.5.4 / 1.5.5
- Hadoop ecosystem administration.
- Spark administration and performance optimization.
- Hive administration and troubleshooting.
- YARN administration and troubleshooting.
- Cluster installation, upgrades, maintenance, and optimization.
Strong experience with:
- Ansible
- Shell Scripting
- Terraform
- Groovy
- Python automation
Experience developing infrastructure automation and operational workflows.
CI/CDHands-on experience building and managing automated pipelines using:
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
Experience implementing CI/CD for data engineering and analytics workloads.
Containers & Platform EngineeringHands-on experience with:
- Docker
- Podman
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift (OCP)
Experience deploying and managing containerized data platform environments.
Observability & MonitoringExperience implementing:
- Platform monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Observability frameworks
- Performance monitoring
Experience with:
- CDP security implementation
- Authentication & authorization
- Security hardening
- Automated security checks
- Regulatory compliance automation
- Automated patch management
- Linux system administration
- Linux networking fundamentals
- Git version control
- Source code management best practices
- Strong production support experience within enterprise environments.
- Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
- Strong understanding of distributed data platforms.
- Ability to optimize platform performance and reliability.
- Strong ownership mindset with focus on operational excellence.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in Agile engineering environments.
- Experience working across Infrastructure, DevOps, and Data Engineering teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Enterprise Data Platform Engineering.
- Large-scale Hadoop & Cloudera environments.
- Data Platform Operations.
- Platform Automation & Infrastructure as Code.
- DevOps Engineering.
- Cloud-native platform engineering.
- OpenShift-based enterprise deployments.
Skills Required
- Hands-on production support for Cloudera CDP environments
- Experience administering Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
- Experience with CDP 7.1.9 or later
- Experience with Cloudera Data Services (CDS) 1.5.4 / 1.5.5
- Hadoop ecosystem administration
- Spark administration and performance optimization
- Hive administration and troubleshooting
- YARN administration and troubleshooting
- Cluster installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and optimization
- Ansible for automation and configuration management
- Shell scripting
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Groovy scripting
- Python automation
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
- Container technologies: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes
- OpenShift (OCP) experience
- Linux system administration and networking fundamentals
- Git version control and source code management best practices
- Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for platforms
- CDP security implementation, authentication/authorization, and security hardening
- Strong production support experience, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills
- Enterprise Data Platform Engineering (preferred)
- Large-scale Hadoop & Cloudera environments experience (preferred)
- Cloud-native platform engineering and OpenShift-based enterprise deployments (preferred)
What We Do
Global Software Solutions Group Veracious product line is a series of robust banking platforms that provide core banking, payment systems, custom process automation, and document management solutions for banks and financial institutions in Middle East & Africa. This cutting-edge product line features the Veracious Payments Hub, Digital Banking and the DMS, all built on the Torus Lowcode development platform software. Global Software Solutions Group is a software solutions provider that aims to solve mission-critical problems that financial institutions face today. Our software solutions bring together our Low Code platform, the payments product line and customized service offerings to solve mission-critical statements in core banking, payments, process automation, and document management. The Payments Hub is GSS's flagship product.
