Cloudera Data Engineer

Job Title: Cloudera Data Engineer (Offshore – Pakistan)

Location: Pakistan (Offshore)
Experience Required: 5+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloudera Data Engineer to join our offshore data engineering team in Pakistan. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data pipelines within the Cloudera ecosystem. The role involves working closely with data architects, administrators, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable and high-performance data processing solutions that support analytics and reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Cloudera ecosystem tools including Apache Spark, Hive, Impala, NiFi, and Oozie.

• Build scalable and optimized data pipelines supporting batch and streaming workloads.

• Develop reusable frameworks and automation scripts for data ingestion, transformation, cleansing, and loading.

• Optimize pipeline performance to ensure high reliability, efficiency, and cost optimization.

• Collaborate with Cloudera Administrators to tune system performance and efficiently manage cluster resources.

• Monitor cluster utilization, job performance, and throughput using Cloudera Manager and related monitoring tools.

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, resolve performance bottlenecks, and address data quality issues.

• Work with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to operationalize data platforms, including:

  • CI/CD pipeline development

  • Deployment automation

  • Environment promotion workflows

  • Monitoring and observability integration

• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and preventive maintenance activities.

• Collaborate with data architects, administrators, and engineering teams to improve end-to-end data platform operations.

• Ensure data pipelines consistently meet defined SLA, latency, and quality standards.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in data engineering with strong exposure to Cloudera platform.

• Hands-on expertise with:

  • Apache Spark

  • Hive

  • Impala

  • Apache NiFi

  • Apache Oozie

  • Hadoop ecosystem components

• Strong experience in SQL and data modeling concepts.

• Experience working with large-scale distributed data processing systems.

• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning skills.

• Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and automation tools.

• Experience working in offshore or distributed delivery models is preferred.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with streaming technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming, or similar).

• Exposure to cloud data platforms or hybrid data architectures.

• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance practices.

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Shell scripting.

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