# Sr. Platform Engineer - (Cloudera CDP & DevOps)

> GSSTech Group · Bengaluru, India · — · Posted 2026-08-06

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are looking for an experienced **Technology Engineer** with strong expertise in **Cloudera CDP, Hadoop ecosystem, DevOps, OpenShift, and CI/CD** to support enterprise **Technology Platforms & Data Platforms** initiatives.

The ideal candidate should possess hands-on production support experience, platform engineering expertise, automation capabilities, and strong knowledge of containerized data platforms. This role requires ownership of Cloudera platform administration, performance optimization, infrastructure automation, observability, and CI/CD implementation within large-scale enterprise environments.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Provide Tier-2 production support for enterprise Cloudera CDP environments.
-   Install, configure, administer, and maintain Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) clusters.
-   Perform installation, upgrades, patching, and maintenance of **CDP 7.1.9** (or latest versions).
-   Administer and support **Cloudera Data Services (CDS) 1.5.4 / 1.5.5** and latest releases.
-   Enable and maintain enterprise security controls across Cloudera CDP environments.
-   Optimize Hadoop cluster performance, resource utilization, and overall platform stability.
-   Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to optimize Spark workloads and improve application performance.
-   Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to:

-   Spark Jobs
-   Hive Jobs
-   YARN Jobs

-   Support CDP containerization using Cloudera Data Services.
-   Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure automation for platform operations.
-   Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for analytics and data engineering workloads.
-   Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational tasks.
-   Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for platform health.
-   Automate security, compliance, and regulatory validation processes.
-   Plan and execute automated patch management across enterprise environments.
-   Work closely with Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, Data Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure reliable platform operations.
-   Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous engineering improvements.

### Required Technical Skills

### Cloudera & Hadoop

-   Strong hands-on experience supporting Cloudera CDP production environments.
-   Experience with:

-   Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
-   CDP 7.1.9 or latest versions
-   Cloudera Data Services (CDS) 1.5.4 / 1.5.5

-   Hadoop ecosystem administration.
-   Spark administration and performance optimization.
-   Hive administration and troubleshooting.
-   YARN administration and troubleshooting.
-   Cluster installation, upgrades, maintenance, and optimization.

### DevOps & Automation

Strong experience with:

-   Ansible
-   Shell Scripting
-   Terraform
-   Groovy
-   Python automation

Experience developing infrastructure automation and operational workflows.

### CI/CD

Hands-on experience building and managing automated pipelines using:

-   GitHub Actions
-   Jenkins
-   ArgoCD

Experience implementing CI/CD for data engineering and analytics workloads.

### Containers & Platform Engineering

Hands-on experience with:

-   Docker
-   Podman
-   Kubernetes
-   OpenShift (OCP)

Experience deploying and managing containerized data platform environments.

### Observability & Monitoring

Experience implementing:

-   Platform monitoring
-   Logging
-   Alerting
-   Observability frameworks
-   Performance monitoring

### Security & Infrastructure

Experience with:

-   CDP security implementation
-   Authentication & authorization
-   Security hardening
-   Automated security checks
-   Regulatory compliance automation
-   Automated patch management

### Operating Systems & Version Control

-   Linux system administration
-   Linux networking fundamentals
-   Git version control
-   Source code management best practices

### Required Competencies

-   Strong production support experience within enterprise environments.
-   Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
-   Strong understanding of distributed data platforms.
-   Ability to optimize platform performance and reliability.
-   Strong ownership mindset with focus on operational excellence.
-   Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
-   Ability to work effectively in Agile engineering environments.
-   Experience working across Infrastructure, DevOps, and Data Engineering teams.
-   Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

### Preferred Experience

-   Enterprise Data Platform Engineering.
-   Large-scale Hadoop & Cloudera environments.
-   Data Platform Operations.
-   Platform Automation & Infrastructure as Code.
-   DevOps Engineering.
-   Cloud-native platform engineering.
-   OpenShift-based enterprise deployments.

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