Cloudera Administrator - London

Job Title: Cloudera Administrator
Location: Stratford, London (3 x per in office week)
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 per day (Inside IR35)
Start Date: November 2025
Job Type: 6-month contract

Company Introduction:
We are looking for a Cloudera Administrator with extensive experience in Cloudera Cloud Data Platform, CDP Services, Terraform and Big data knowledge to join our global client in the finance industry.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives:

• Design and automate the deployment of Cloudera CDP components (Data Lake, Data Hubs, Data Services) using Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for infrastructure and data pipeline automation
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to integrate CDP with existing Big Data workflows.
• Write and maintain automation scripts using Shell and Python.
• Manage infrastructure and configuration using YAML and JSON.
• Configuring and tuning Cloudera services for performance and security.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and cost-effective deployments on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• An understanding of all the Hadoop daemons along with their roles and responsibilities in the cluster.
• Should be able to troubleshoot issues in Cloudera services and fix those.
• Adding and removing nodes in the cluster.
• Rebalancing nodes in the cluster.
• Employ security using an authentication and authorisation system such as Kerberos.
• Knowledge of changes required for migrating to Cloudera cloud version CDP
• Knowledge of Cloudera data services (CDW, CDE, CDF, CAI)
• Design Native Cloud Application Architectures and optimize applications for AWS
• Network connectivity, Direct Connect, VPN, VPC, Security group, NACL, Route 53
• Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerisation - Glue, Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins)
• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
• Hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
• Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organisations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies.
• Environment and application automation
• CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
• AWS Cost Management and Optimisation

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Extensive experience with Cloudera cloud data platform (CDP) and CDP Services and Big data knowledge.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera CDP and Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, Impala, HDFS, etc.)
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Solid Scripting skills in Shell and Python.
• Extensive experience in designing, provisioning, deploying and configurtion of the Cloudera cluster based on customers need
• Extensive experience in AWS service - EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route 53 etc and should be able to design and deploy cloudera cluster on AWS cloud
• Strong knowledge of data processing using Cloudera services
• Good understanding of CI/CD concepts, version control, and DevOps best practices.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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