Job Information
NTT Data Americas, Inc. Senior Cloudera Platform Engineer in Plano, Texas
Company Overview
NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation, and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com .
L3 – Senior Cloudera Platform Engineer (2 Positions)
12 years of experience in Big Data Platform Engineering / Cloud Platform Operations / Infrastructure roles
6 years of hands-on experience with Cloudera ecosystem (CDH/CDP/Cloudera Public Cloud)
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and evolving platform capabilities, beyond the currently defined CDP stack
Strong Expertise In:
End-to-end CDP platform operations (CDE, CDW, CDF, CDL, CAI)
Advanced troubleshooting across multi-cluster, multi-environment deployments
Kubernetes-based runtime environments (troubleshooting and diagnostics)
Observability frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and performance tuning
Proven Experience In:
Leading P1/P2 incident response, triage, and resolution
Managing platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle events
Supporting large-scale environments (TB/PB scale, high concurrency workloads)
Strong Understanding Of:
Cloud infrastructure (IAM, VPC, networking, storage)
Security and governance (Ranger, Kerberos, TLS/SSL, SDX)
Expected To:
Lead complex troubleshooting and drive root cause resolution across platform layers
Mentor and guide L2 engineers
Coordinate with Cloudera support and infrastructure teams for critical issues
Hands-On Experience In:
Developing and troubleshooting NiFi (CDF) data flows, including:
Flow design and configuration
Processor-level debugging and performance tuning
Handling backpressure, throughput optimization, and failure recovery
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