Overview
Data Platform Advisor Jobs in Amman, Jordan at Arab Bank
Title: Data Platform Advisor
Company: Arab Bank
Location: Amman, Jordan
We are Looking for a Data Platforms Advisor to manage, monitor, and optimize our Cloudera big data platform. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Cloudera CDP, Hadoop ecosystem administration, cluster management, performance tuning, security, and production support. This role requires deep technical expertise and the ability to ensure high availability, stability, and scalability of the data platform.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and administer Cloudera CDP clusters, ETL tools, data science & Reporting tools
- Perform regular cluster maintenance, upgrades patches, and hotfix deployments
- Monitor cluster performance, resource utilization, and ensure high availability
- Manage and optimize core Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, ZooKeeper, Impala, etc.)
- Troubleshoot node failures, service downtime performance bottlenecks, and configuration issues
- Implement and manage cluster security Kerberos, Ranger, Sentry, SSL, and role-based
- access
- Set up and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures. Work closely with development teams to support data pipelines, jobs, and workloads running on the cluster
- Ensure adherence to data governance compliance, and security standards
- Maintain detailed documentation of cluster architecture, topology, and changes
- Support automation and scripting for operational efficiency (bash, Python, Ansible etc.).
- Participate in on-call rotation for production support and incident response
- Create and maintain documentation for the platform's low- and high-level design and other architecture and operational related aspects
- Conduct capacity planning , sizing , backup, storage ,retrieval disaster recovery business continuity management across Data Platforms tools .
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Masters preferred
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in a Big Data and cloud tools
- Extensive experience working with Data Platform tools like Big Data stack ,ETL TOOLS , streaming , data science and Data Visualization tools
- Strong hands-on experience as a Cloudera Administrator (CDH/CDP)
- Deep understanding of Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, HBase, ZooKeeper, Oozie, Impala) • Experience managing large-scale, distributed data systems.
- Proficiency in Linux administration (RHEL/ CentOS/Ubuntu)
- Strong experience troubleshooting cluster issues and optimizing performance.
- Hands-on experience with Kerberos, Ranger/ Sentry, LDAP/AD integrations.
- Scripting skills (Shell, Python, or similar)
- Knowledge of networking concepts, load balancing, and security best practices,
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
