Senior Cloudera Big Data Administrator: Ops & Security

Mashreq; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq is seeking an experienced Cloudera Administrator with 4–7 years of hands-on experience to manage our enterprise Hadoop ecosystem. You will ensure stability, performance, and security of Cloudera clusters while supporting data ingestion and analytics workloads.

The role requires strong Linux system administration, Cloudera Manager expertise, and experience with security integrations like Kerberos and LDAP/AD. Remote cloud deployments are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4–7 years hands-on Cloudera/Hadoop administration.
• Strong Linux/Unix admin and shell scripting skills.
• Expertise in HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Impala, Kafka, HBase.
• Cloudera Manager knowledge for monitoring and cluster admin.
• Security: Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry, LDAP/AD integration.
• Troubleshooting, log analysis, and performance tuning.
• Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery for big data.
• Cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain CDP/CDH clusters in prod and non-prod environments.
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and resource usage.
• Manage Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, etc.).
• Perform upgrades, patches, and migrations with minimal downtime.
• Implement security controls and access management.
• Automate admin tasks with Python, Shell, or Ansible.
• Troubleshoot cluster issues and job failures.
• Support disaster recovery planning for Hadoop clusters.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Architects to optimize data pipelines.
• Generate usage and capacity reports.

Skills

Linux/Unix administration

Shell scripting

Troubleshooting & performance tuning

Cloud platforms knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Cloudera Manager

CDP/CDH Hadoop stacks

Hadoop ecosystem components

Job description

Mashreq is seeking an experienced Cloudera Administrator with 4–7 years of hands-on experience to manage our enterprise Hadoop ecosystem. You will ensure stability, performance, and security of Cloudera clusters while supporting data ingestion and analytics workloads.

The role requires strong Linux system administration, Cloudera Manager expertise, and experience with security integrations like Kerberos and LDAP/AD. Remote cloud deployments are a plus.