Iceberg DBA

VDart Inc; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc. is seeking an Iceberg DBA for a contract role based in Plano, TX, with remote options. You will handle Iceberg table operations, Spark SQL, Hive/Impala interactions, and maintain data reliability across the Lakehouse environment.

Ideal candidates have 4–6 years in Big Data/DBA roles, hands-on Iceberg experience, and strong operational support, monitoring, and incident management within the Cloudera CDP ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in Big Data / Data Operations / DBA roles.
• Minimum 1+ year of experience with Apache Iceberg or similar table formats (Hive/Delta/Hudi).
• 4+ years of experience with Cloudera ecosystem (CDP).

Responsibilities

• Production support and incident handling
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support
• Apply established data modeling and Lakehouse standards in day-to-day operations
• Support: Table structuring
• Partition alignment with ingestion patterns
• Assist in maintaining consistency of datasets across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers

Skills

Big Data / Data Operations / DBA

Apache Iceberg

Cloudera CDP

Spark SQL

Hive / Impala

Production support

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Data modeling

Lakehouse standards

Table structuring

Partition alignment

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Cloudera CDP

Spark SQL

Hive

Impala

Job description

Role: Iceberg DBA

Location: Plano, TX (Remote)

Type: Contract

• 4 6 years of experience in Big Data / Data Operations / DBA roles
• Minimum 1+ year of experience with Apache Iceberg or similar table formats (Hive/Delta/Hudi)
• 4+ years of experience with Cloudera ecosystem (CDP)Hands-on experience with:
• Iceberg table operations and maintenance
• Spark SQL, Hive, or Impala

Experience in:

• Production support and incident handling
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support
• Apply established data modeling and Lakehouse standards in day-to-day operations
• Support:
• Table structuring
• Partition alignment with ingestion patterns
• Assist in maintaining consistency of datasets across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers

Why This Role Matters:

• Ensures data correctness and performance for downstream analytics and business-critical reporting
• Enables successful modernization from legacy platforms to Iceberg
• Maintains high availability and reliability of the enterprise data layer