Cloudera Public Cloud Platform Engineer

Role: L3 – Cloudera Public Cloud Platform Engineer
Work location: Remote work accepted from anywhere in US

• 12+ years of experience in Big Data Platform Engineering / Cloud Platform Operations / Infrastructure roles
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Cloudera ecosystem (CDH/CDP/ Cloudera Public Cloud)
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and evolving platform capabilities, beyond the currently defined CDP stack

• Strong expertise in:
o End-to-end CDP platform operations (CDE, CDW, CDF, CDL, CAI)
o Advanced troubleshooting across multi-cluster, multi-environment deployments
o Kubernetes-based runtime environments (troubleshooting and diagnostics)
o Observability frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and performance tuning

• Proven experience in:
o Leading P1/P2 incident response, triage, and resolution
o Managing platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle events
o Supporting large-scale environments (TB/PB scale, high concurrency workloads)
• Strong understanding of:
o Cloud infrastructure (IAM, VPC, networking, storage)
o Security and governance (Ranger, Kerberos, TLS/SSL, SDX)

• Expected to:
o Lead complex troubleshooting and drive root cause resolution across platform layers
o Mentor and guide L2 engineers
o Coordinate with Cloudera support and infrastructure teams for critical issues
• Hands-on experience in developing and troubleshooting NiFi (CDF) data flows, including:
o Flow design and configuration
o Processor-level debugging and performance tuning
o Handling backpressure, throughput optimization, and failure recovery



Required Skills

• Strong experience with Cloudera CDP Public Cloud
• Expertise in:
o Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform)
o Kubernetes concepts (troubleshooting-focused)
• Hands-on with:
o CDE, CDW, CDF (NiFi), CAI
• knowledge of:
o IAM, networking, observability tools
• Platforms operating at multi-terabyte to petabyte scale with high concurrency workloads
• Hands-on experience with:
o Kafka (or similar streaming platforms) including monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Experience with Cloudera CDP CLI (Command Line Interface) for:
o Platform operations and administration
o Job execution and service management (CDE/CDW/CDL)
o Automation of routine operational tasks8
• Strong working knowledge of:
o Cloud IAM (AWS IAM / Azure AD) including roles, policies, and cross-service access
o User and group mapping across CDP, cloud IAM, and Ranger policies
o Troubleshooting access issues across storage (S3/ADLS), CDP services, and data access layers