Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sira Consulting is seeking a Senior Cloudera Platform Engineer to build, administer, secure, automate, and support Cloudera CDP Public Cloud platforms. The role is responsible for managing data platform environments, NiFi and security configurations, operating-system maintenance, upgrades, monitoring, application onboarding, migration support, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Provision and administer CDP Public Cloud environments, FreeIPA, Data Lakes, Data Hubs, CDE, CDW, and CFM/NiFi clusters
- Build and configure CFM 4.x and NiFi 2.x, including NiFi Registry, Schema Registry, Site-to-Site, repositories, queues, load balancing, and high availability
- Configure Ranger, RAZ, IDBroker, workload identities, S3 access, and prefix-level authorization
- Support Entra SAML/SSO, SCIM provisioning, CDP roles, groups, machine users, and application access
- Use CDP CLI, APIs, and automation scripts for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, maintenance, and operational support
- Configure Data Hub instance groups, storage, autoscaling, multi-AZ deployment, cluster databases, and recovery settings
- Develop, test, version, and maintain Cloudera Recipes for software installation, configuration, certificates, security agents, and operational automation
- Maintain Recipe lifecycle hooks, including pre-service deployment and post-Cloudera Manager startup activities
- Install and support approved security agents such as CrowdStrike and Nessus across CDP-managed EC2 nodes
- Monitor security-agent installation, registration, service health, scan coverage, and reporting status
- Plan and execute supported RHEL operating-system patching, kernel updates, security remediation, and controlled reboots
- Coordinate OS patch compatibility with CDP runtime, Cloudera Manager, Java, Python, parcels, and application dependencies
- Review vulnerability findings and remediate operating-system, Java, Cloudera, NiFi, and third-party package vulnerabilities
- Monitor cluster health, capacity, performance, service availability, disk utilization, certificates, licenses, and security events
- Configure and monitor Cloudera Manager alerts, audit logs, Ranger audits, NiFi bulletins, and integrations with enterprise monitoring platforms
- Maintain TLS certificates, trust stores, key stores, service credentials, and certificate-renewal procedures
- Onboard application teams and define isolated S3 paths, Ranger policies, NiFi process groups, workload access, and resource requirements
- Troubleshoot Cloudera Manager, FreeIPA, NiFi, Spark, Hive, Ranger, Kerberos, S3, KMS, DNS, certificates, and network-connectivity issues
- Plan and execute CDP runtime, CFM/NiFi, parcel, database, OS, Java, and security-agent upgrades
- Validate backups, restore procedures, cluster recovery, and disaster-recovery readiness
- Support Teradata migration and ingestion workflows involving on-premises HDFS, Linux filesystems, NiFi, AWS S3, and cloud data services
- Maintain platform standards, architecture documentation, onboarding guides, patching procedures, security runbooks, and recovery documentation
- Participate in production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, maintenance windows, and on-call rotations
Skills
- 5+ years supporting Cloudera, Hadoop, NiFi, or comparable enterprise data platforms
- Hands-on CDP Public Cloud administration and production support experience
- Strong experience with CFM/Apache NiFi, Ranger, RAZ, Cloudera Manager, Spark, Hive, FreeIPA, Kerberos, and IDBroker
- Experience creating and troubleshooting Cloudera Recipes and lifecycle scripts
- Strong RHEL/Linux administration experience, including patching, package management, systemd, storage, certificates, logs, and performance troubleshooting
- Experience with vulnerability remediation and endpoint security agents such as CrowdStrike, Nessus, or equivalent tools
- Experience with CDP CLI/API automation, Bash, Python, Git, and operational scripting
- Working knowledge of AWS S3, IAM roles, KMS, EC2, load balancers, private networking, and security groups
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, data flows, identity, certificates, DNS, and network connectivity
- Strong production support, documentation, change-management, and stakeholder communication skills
- Cloudera Public Cloud certification
- Experience with migration, AWS-based CDP deployments, multi-AZ architecture, and regulated workloads
- Familiarity with Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, Entra SAML/SCIM, CloudWatch, Splunk, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise tools
- Experience with security hardening, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, and production-readiness reviews
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Contract role
- On-call rotations
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