Business Intelligence Specialist

Senior Cloudera Data Lake Platform Consultant

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloudera Data Lake Platform Consultant to provide operational support, maintenance, and technical leadership for a large enterprise Cloudera environment while supporting a strategic migration to a modern Azure and Databricks platform.

This is a hands-on role responsible for ensuring the stability, security, performance, and availability of a business-critical data platform that supports analytics, reporting, data integration, and downstream business operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administration and operational support of the Cloudera Data Lake environment.
• Monitor platform health, performance, storage utilization, workloads, and capacity.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, service disruptions, and performance issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
• Support patching, upgrades, maintenance activities, and platform lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot data pipelines, batch processing jobs, reporting workloads, and integrations.
• Administer security controls, user access, authentication, authorization, and auditing processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and vendor teams to resolve complex technical issues.
• Support migration, cutover, validation, and stabilization activities as workloads transition to Azure and Databricks.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and support procedures.
• Deliver ongoing knowledge transfer to internal teams throughout the engagement.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Support, Systems Administration, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years supporting enterprise Cloudera/Hadoop environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale, business-critical production data platforms.
• Strong background in incident management, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and platform operations.
• Experience supporting modernization, migration, or cloud transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder communication and vendor management skills.

Technical Skills

Cloudera / Hadoop Ecosystem:

• Cloudera Manager, CDP/CDH
• HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark
• Kudu, Oozie, Hue, YARN
• Ranger, Atlas, ZooKeeper
• Kafka and Sqoop

Platform & Infrastructure:

• Linux Administration
• Shell Scripting, Python, SQL
• Performance Tuning & Capacity Management
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery
• Security, Access Management & Compliance

Cloud & Modernization:

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Azure Monitoring & Identity Services
• Databricks & Delta Lake
• Cloud Migration & Hybrid Data Platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloudera, Azure, or Databricks certifications.
• Experience supporting legacy platform modernization and cloud migration programs.
• ITIL, Linux Administration, or Security certifications are considered assets.

Ideal Candidate

You are a hands-on Cloudera expert who thrives in complex enterprise environments, enjoys solving challenging operational issues, and can balance platform support responsibilities with modernization and migration initiatives. You'll play a key role in maintaining a stable environment while helping drive the organization's cloud transformation journey.