Cloudera Public Cloud Administrator - Contract to Hire

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Reston
Posted on: March 8, 2025

Job Description:

CLOUDERA ADMINISTRATOR - Hybrid, Reston VA

Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying.
12 Month+ Contract to Hire

ALTA IT Services is seeking a Cloudera Big Data Administrator (NOT a Developer) to support a Reston, VA-based health insurance customer. This is a hybrid position. Contract to Hire

RESPONSIBILITIES Experience with building Cloudera clusters, setting up NiFi, SOLR, HBase, Kafka, and Knox in the Cloud using CDP Public Cloud v7.2.17 or higher.
Set up High Availability of Services like Hue, Hive, HBase REST, SOLR, and IMPALA on top of the all-new clusters that were built on the BDPaaS Platform.
Write shell scripts to monitor the health check of services and respond accordingly to any warning or failure conditions.
Monitor the health of all the services running in the production cluster using the Cloudera Manager.
Perform/access databases, metastore tables, and write Hive, and Impala queries using HUE.
Monitor the health of the Services on top of all clusters.
Work closely with the Application Development team, Security team, and Platform Support to identify and implement the Configurational changes that are needed on top of the cluster for better performance of the services.


REQUIRED SKILLS Cloudera CDP Public Cloud v7.2.17 or higher
Apache Kafka - strong administration & troubleshooting skills
Kafka Streams - API stream processing with KStreams & Ktables
Kafka integration with IBM MQ
Kafka broker management
Topic/ offset management
Apache Nifi - Administration
Flow management, registry server management, controller service management
NiFi to Kafka /HBase /SOLR integration
HBase - administration, database management and troubleshooting
SOLR - administration, manage Logging level, manage shards & high availability
Collection management
Rectify resource intensive & long-running SOLR queries


ADDITIONAL MUST HAVE SKILLS: Proficient with handling AWS EC2, S3, EBS, EFS
Ensure Cloudera installation and configuration meet optimal specifications (CDP, CDSW, Hive, Spark, NiFi).
Design and implement big data pipelines and automated data flows using Python/R and NiFi.
Assist and provide expertise as it pertains to automating the entire project lifecycle.
Perform incremental updates and upgrades to the Cloudera environment with newer versions.
Assist with new use cases (i.e., analytics/ML, data science, data ingest and processing)
Infrastructure (including new cluster deployments, cluster migration, expansion, major upgrades, COOP/DR, and security).
Assist in testing, governance, data quality, training, and documentation efforts.
Move data and use YARN to allocate resources and schedule jobs.
Manage job workflows with Hue.
Implement comprehensive security policies across the Hadoop cluster using Ranger.
Troubleshoot potential issues with Kerberos, TLS/SSL, Models, and Experiments, as well as other workload issues that data scientists might encounter once the application is running.
Support Big Data / Hadoop databases throughout the development and production lifecycle.
Troubleshoot and resolve database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues, performance tuning, query optimization, using monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Create, test, and implement scripting for automation support.
Experience with the Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Brokers, Connect, Zookeeper) in production is ideal.
Implement and support streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark & Kudu.


HOURLY RATE: $65/HR. Benefits Available. C2C is OK

For consideration, please send an updated resume to Melissa McNally via mmcnally@altaits.com
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