About the Role
We are looking for a motivated Hadoop Administrator with more than 3 years of hands-on experience in managing Cloudera Hadoop environments. You will support daily platform operations, assist in patching upgrades, and participate in migration activities under senior guidance
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor Hadoop cluster performance and ensure service availability
- Handle incident management and perform vendor log collection for Cloudera products
- Execute application stop, start, and configuration requests as per operational needs
- Collaborate with OS Storage Network and Compute teams for crossplatform support
- Assist in job failure analysis queue management and resource allocation
- Perform patching minor upgrades and participate in NiFi template migrations
- Contribute to backup and recovery operations for critical datasets
- Handle user and access management requests, Kerberos Ranger LDAP
- Participate in Cloudera minor version upgrades and hotfix deployment under supervision
- Support DR drill activities and synchronisation between production and DR environments
- Monitor platform using Cloudera Manager, Grafana and ELK dashboards
Required Skills Experience
- More than 3 years of experience with the Hadoop ecosystem, HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Oozie
- Basic understanding of Cloudera Manager and its administrative tools
- Proficient in Linux administration and shell scripting
- Familiar with Kerberos authentication, Ranger security, and user access management
- Understanding of patch management and platform upgrade workflows
- Good troubleshooting, log analysis, and communication skills
Good to Have
- Exposure to Python or Ansible scripting for automation
- Experience in CICD-based cluster operations
- Familiarity with AWS or Azure-based Hadoop deployments
