We are seeking a Cloudera Operations Engineer (Day 2 Support) to manage, optimize, and support enterprise Cloudera environments in production.

This role focuses on post-implementation operational support, performance optimization, incident management, and continuous improvement of Cloudera-based big data platforms.

As a Cloudera Operations Engineer, you will:

• Provide Day 2 operational support for Cloudera CDH/CDP clusters in production environments
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity planning
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform-related incidents, problems, and service requests
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures
• Manage upgrades, patches, and maintenance activities
• Optimize Hadoop/Spark workloads and improve cluster performance
• Ensure security, governance, and compliance standards are maintained
• Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures
• Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams
• Maintain operational documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  
  Required Technical Skills
  
  
  • Strong experience with Cloudera CDH/CDP administration
  • Hands-on expertise in:
    
    • HDFS
    • YARN
    • Hive
    • Impala
    • Spark
    • Kafka
    • HBase
  • Experience with cluster monitoring tools (Cloudera Manager, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
  • Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS)
  • Shell scripting (Bash) and basic Python scripting
  • Experience with Kerberos security configuration
  • Good understanding of networking and storage concepts
  • Incident and problem management experience (ITIL framework preferred)
  
  Preferred Skills
  
  
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Experience in hybrid cloud deployments
  • Knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Automation using Ansible or Terraform
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
  • Cloudera certification is a plus