Xenon Seven

Senior Cloudera Administrator

Xenon Seven

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Serbia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopHBaseHDFSKafkaKubernetesLinuxSparkYarn

About the role

  • - Administer, maintain, and optimize Cloudera Hadoop clusters (CDP or legacy Cloudera distributions).
  • - Ensure high availability, performance tuning, capacity planning, and cluster security.
  • - Manage upgrades, patching, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Cloudera services (HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Impala, Spark, Kafka, etc.).
  • - Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Spark, Hive, Kafka, Airflow, NiFi, or similar.
  • - Review and guide data ingestion, transformation, and storage strategies across batch and streaming workloads.
  • - Ensure data quality, reliability, and scalability of pipelines.
  • - Design, understand, and document data storage architectures and data flow diagrams.
  • - Collaborate with stakeholders to define end-to-end data platform architecture.
  • - Translate business requirements into scalable, secure data solutions.
  • - Lead and mentor teams of data engineers, providing technical guidance and best practices.
  • - Set standards for development, deployment, monitoring, and documentation.
  • - Work closely with data scientists, analysts, DevOps, and application teams.
  • - Implement security best practices including Kerberos, Ranger, and data access controls.
  • - Support data governance, lineage, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

  • - 7+ years of experience in data platforms, Hadoop, or big data administration.
  • - Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera (CDH/CDP) administration.
  • - Proven experience managing and mentoring data engineering teams.
  • - Strong background in ETL pipeline design and implementation.
  • - Expertise with Spark, Hive, HDFS, YARN, Kafka, Airflow/NiFi (or similar tools).
  • - Ability to design and draw architecture diagrams for data storage and data flows.
  • - Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
  • - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a strong plus.
  • - Excellent communication and documentation skills.
  • Nice to Have
  • - Cloudera certification(s).
  • - Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • - Exposure to data governance tools and metadata management.
  • - Experience in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments.
Benefits
  • - **Attractive, market-leading salary package.**
  • - **Clear career advancement path with professional development opportunities.**
  • - **One-year contract with Xenon7, presenting a significant opportunity for renewal.**
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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloudera HadoopETL pipeline designSparkHiveHDFSYARNKafkaAirflowNiFiLinux
Soft Skills
communicationdocumentationmentoringcollaborationleadership
Certifications
Cloudera certification