Cloudera Big Data Administrator

Job Title: Cloudera Big Data Administrator (Contract-to-Hire)

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid)

Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Cloudera Big Data Administrator for a contract-to-hire position in Reston, VA. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in managing and optimizing Cloudera CDP Public Cloud (v7.2.17 or higher) environments and will have experience with administering and troubleshooting big data services such as NiFi, Kafka, SOLR, HBase, and other related technologies. This is not a developer role but a hands-on administrator role, focusing on managing big data clusters, ensuring high availability, and optimizing performance for enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and manage Cloudera clusters, including setting up NiFi, SOLR, HBase, Kafka, and Knox on the cloud using CDP Public Cloud v7.2.17 or higher.
• Configure and maintain high availability for services like Hue, Hive, HBase REST, SOLR, and IMPALA on BDPaaS platform clusters.
• Monitor and troubleshoot the health of all services using Cloudera Manager.
• Write shell scripts for health checks and automated responses to warnings or failures.
• Administer and manage Kafka brokers, streams, offsets, and integration with IBM MQ.
• Handle flow management, registry server management, and NiFi integrations with Kafka, HBase, and SOLR.
• Manage and optimize HBase database operations, SOLR shards, and collections, including troubleshooting long-running queries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Application Development, Security, and Platform Support) to implement configuration changes for improved cluster performance.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency with Cloudera CDP Public Cloud v7.2.17 or higher.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting skills with Apache Kafka (Kafka Streams API, KStreams & KTables, broker management, offset management).
• Expertise in Apache NiFi administration, flow management, and integrations.
• Experience managing HBase (database management, troubleshooting) and SOLR (managing shards, logging levels, high availability).
• Familiarity with AWS services like EC2, S3, EBS, and EFS.
• Hands-on experience with YARN, Hue, and security policies using Ranger.
• Proficiency in scripting for automation and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of Kerberos, TLS/SSL, and resolving workload issues for data scientists.

Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of Python/R for designing and implementing automated data pipelines.
• Familiarity with infrastructure expansion, cluster migration, major upgrades, and COOP/DR setups.
• Experience with testing, governance, data quality, and documentation efforts.
• Expertise in supporting and troubleshooting big data ecosystems, including Hadoop databases and related services.
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka, Spark, and Kudu is a plus.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Cloudera Big Data Administrator or in a similar role.

Work Arrangement:
This is a hybrid role based in Reston, VA, requiring some on-site presence. Candidates must be located within the DMV area or willing to commute as needed.

Interview Process:

• Virtual interviews via MS Teams starting the week of January 13.