Senior Hadoop and Cloudera CDP Administrator

Nagarro Softwares Pvt. Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nagarro Softwares Pvt. Ltd Bengaluru invites a Staff Engineer to lead Cloudera CDP and Hadoop administration in Tier-2 production environments. The role emphasizes securing, automating, and optimizing data platforms with modern CI/CD practices.

Expect 5.5+ years of hands-on experience and a strong foundation in Linux, scripting, and cloud-native tooling; you'll collaborate across data, infra, security, and operations teams to ensure platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Tier-2 production experience in Cloudera CDP and Hadoop administration.
• Strong experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cloudera CDP environments.
• Experience with CDP 7.1.9+ and CDP Data Services versions 1.5.4/1.5.5; Spark, Hive, YARN.
• Automation using Ansible, Shell scripting, Terraform, Groovy, and Python.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD; GitOps basics.
• Containerization with Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift/OCP; IaC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Administer, install, configure, maintain, and support Cloudera CDP and Hadoop environments in Tier-2 production.
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and ongoing maintenance of CDP versions including 7.1.9+.
• Configure and implement security across CDP environments; automated security and regulatory checks.
• Configure and maintain Cloudera Data Services (v1.5.4, 1.5.5, and later).
• Troubleshoot Spark, Hive, and YARN production jobs; optimize performance.
• Monitor cluster health, resource utilization, and overall CDP performance.
• Develop automation scripts and workflows using Shell, Ansible, Terraform, Groovy, Python.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD; implement GitOps as applicable.
• Support containerized Cloudera Data Services using Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift/OCP.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC; implement observability and patching processes.
• Collaborate with data, infra, security, and operations teams to resolve production issues.

Skills

Cloudera CDP

Hadoop administration

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Linux administration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Shell scripting

Terraform

Groovy

Python

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Git

Podman

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Staff Engineer (Cloudera CDP & Hadoop Administration)

Company Description

We’re Nagarro. We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at a scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18500+ experts across 40 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Requirements

Experience : 5.5+ years

• Hands-on Tier-2 production experience in Cloudera CDP and Hadoop administration .
• Strong experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cloudera CDP environments.
• Experience with Cloudera CDP 7.1.9 or later and Cloudera Data Services, including versions 1.5.4 and 1.5.5.
• Strong understanding of Hadoop ecosystem components, particularly Spark, Hive, and YARN .
• Proven experience troubleshooting Spark, Hive, and YARN jobs in production environments.
• Experience optimizing Cloudera cluster performance, resource utilization, and workload execution.
• Strong understanding of CDP security configuration and implementation of security and regulatory requirements.
• Hands-on experience with automation using Ansible, Shell scripting, Terraform, Groovy, and Python .
• Experience building and managing automated CI/CD pipelines and workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD , or equivalent tools.
• Good understanding of GitOps practices and source control using Git.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift/OCP .
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring for data platforms and production environments.
• Experience automating security, compliance, regulatory checks, and patching activities.
• Strong Linux administration and basic networking knowledge.
• Experience working in Agile engineering and DevOps-oriented environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to support critical production data platforms.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and other technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer, install, configure, maintain, and support Cloudera CDP and Hadoop environments in Tier-2 production environments.
• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and ongoing maintenance of the latest supported Cloudera CDP versions, including CDP 7.1.9 or later.
• Configure and implement security requirements across Cloudera CDP environments, including automated security and regulatory compliance checks.
• Configure and maintain Cloudera Data Services, including versions 1.5.4, 1.5.5, and later supported releases.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to Spark, Hive, and YARN jobs.
• Monitor and optimize cluster health, resource utilization, capacity, and overall CDP performance.
• Work closely with data engineering teams to troubleshoot and optimize Spark job performance and resource utilization.
• Implement automation for cluster administration, operational processes, security checks, patching, and data/analytics workloads.
• Develop automation scripts and infrastructure workflows using Shell, Ansible, Terraform, Groovy, and Python.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for data projects using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and operational practices for data and analytics platforms where applicable.
• Support containerized Cloudera Data Services using technologies such as Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions for Cloudera clusters, data services, jobs, and infrastructure components.
• Perform automated patching and support lifecycle management activities across the platform.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to resolve production issues and improve platform reliability.
• Maintain source code, automation scripts, configurations, and deployment artifacts using Git-based source control.
• Follow Agile engineering practices and contribute to continuous improvement, operational automation, and platform standardization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience Level Senior Level