Job Description

Cloudera Platform Engineer



Role Summary

We are seeking a skilled Cloudera Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise big data platforms. The role involves managing the Cloudera ecosystem, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance for data-intensive applications, while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, and DevOps teams.



Key Responsibilities



Deploy, configure, and manage the Cloudera platform (CDH/Cloudera Data Platform) and related components (HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka)



Monitor and optimize cluster performance, scalability, and security



Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies for Cloudera clusters



Work with DevOps teams to automate deployment and management using tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet



Troubleshoot complex issues in Hadoop ecosystem components and integrations



Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards



Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to support ingestion, processing, and analytics workloads



Maintain patching, upgrades, and version control of the Cloudera environment



Required Skills & Qualifications



Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera platform (CDH/CDP) and Hadoop ecosystem



Expertise in HDFS, Hive, HBase, Spark, Impala, Kafka, and YARN



Proficiency in Linux/Unix administration



Experience with scripting languages (Shell, Python, Bash)



Knowledge of cluster monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting



Understanding of security frameworks (Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry)



Good to Have



Experience with cloud deployments of Cloudera (AWS, Azure, GCP)



Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) for big data workloads



Exposure to CI/CD for data platforms



Understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and analytics workflows



Education & Experience



Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field



5+ years of experience in Hadoop/Cloudera platform engineering or big data administration

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.


Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.


Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.