Remote Iceberg DBA & Lakehouse Operations Engineer

Integrated Technology Strategies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Technology Strategies, Inc. seeks Iceberg DBA / Lakehouse Operations Engineers to support an enterprise-scale Lakehouse platform and large-scale data modernization initiatives.

This remote role focuses on Iceberg table operations, performance tuning, metadata management, production support, and multi-engine query optimization across Hive/Teradata to Iceberg migrations. Candidates should bring hands-on Iceberg experience and a track record in TB/PB-scale environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in big data, data engineering, DBA or data operations.
• 2+ years hands-on Apache Iceberg production experience.
• 6+ years Cloudera/CDP experience with Iceberg migrations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Iceberg tables at enterprise TB/PB scale.
• Perform data compaction, metadata cleanup and orphan file cleanup.
• Tune partitions, file sizes, clustering and query performance.
• Provide L2/L3 on-call production support and RCA.
• Support enterprise data modernization and migration initiatives.
• Ensure data reliability, security, and governance.

Skills

Apache Iceberg

Big Data

Spark

Hive

Impala

Cloudera/CDP

Data modeling

Medallion Architecture

TB/PB-scale data

Production incident support

Migrations

Tools

NiFi

Trino

Python

Shell scripting

Parquet/ORC

Job description

Integrated Technology Strategies, Inc. seeks Iceberg DBA / Lakehouse Operations Engineers to support an enterprise-scale Lakehouse platform and large-scale data modernization initiatives.

This remote role focuses on Iceberg table operations, performance tuning, metadata management, production support, and multi-engine query optimization across Hive/Teradata to Iceberg migrations. Candidates should bring hands-on Iceberg experience and a track record in TB/PB-scale environments.