AWS Platform Engineer

Tieto; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tieto in Irving, Texas seeks a senior data platform administrator with 5+ years supporting Cloudera, Hadoop, NiFi and related enterprise data platforms. You will oversee production environments, troubleshoot data pipelines, and optimize system performance.

The role requires strong Linux (RHEL), Kerberos/FreeIPA, and security tooling experience, plus scripting in Bash and Python. You will collaborate with security, operations, and governance teams to ensure reliability and compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting Cloudera, Hadoop, NiFi, or comparable enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Strong production support, documentation, change-management, and stakeholder communication skills.

Skills

5+ years supporting data platforms

Tools

CFM/Apache NiFi

Ranger

RAZ

Cloudera Manager

Spark

Hive

FreeIPA

Kerberos

IDBroker

CDP CLI/API automation

Bash

Python

Git

AWS S3

IAM roles

KMS

EC2

Job description

• 5+ years supporting Cloudera, Hadoop, NiFi, or comparable enterprise data platforms.
• Hands-on CDP Public Cloud administration and production support experience.
• Strong experience with CFM/Apache NiFi, Ranger, RAZ, Cloudera Manager, Spark, Hive, FreeIPA, Kerberos, and IDBroker.
• Experience creating and troubleshooting Cloudera Recipes and lifecycle scripts.
• Strong RHEL/Linux administration experience, including patching, package management, systemd, storage, certificates, logs, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and endpoint security agents such as CrowdStrike, Nessus, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with CDP CLI/API automation, Bash, Python, Git, and operational scripting.
• Working knowledge of AWS S3, IAM roles, KMS, EC2, load balancers, private networking, and security groups.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems, data flows, identity, certificates, DNS, and network connectivity.
• Strong production support, documentation, change-management, and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred

• Cloudera Public Cloud certification.
• Experience with migration, AWS-based CDP deployments, multi-AZ architecture, and regulated workloads.
• Familiarity with Terraform, GitHub CI/CD, Entra SAML/SCIM, CloudWatch, Splunk, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise tools.
• Experience with security hardening, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, and production-readiness reviews.