Remote Iceberg DBA – Lakehouse Data Operations

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

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.