Senior Architect

Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage large-scale enterprise data platforms.
• Support Engineering lifecycle management activities including provisioning, IaC, upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, delivering on engineering roadmap
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, resiliency, and operational excellence across our environments.
• Infrastructure Automation & DevOps
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Create reusable automation frameworks and engineering tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Build and operate hybrid data platform services spanning on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Support modern data platform technologies including:
  • Cloudera CDP Private Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Apache Spark
  • Hive
  • Impala
  • Iceberg
  • Ozone
  • NiFi
  • Kafka
  • AI/ML enablement
  • Hybrid Cloud setup (Azure/AWS, on-premises)
• Assist with platform modernization and migration initiatives.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain enterprise-grade security controls.
• Manage authentication, authorization, encryption, and certificate-based security models.
• Support Kerberos, LDAP, SSO, Ranger, TLS, RBAC, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Conduct security reviews and platform hardening activities.

Performance Engineering

• Perform performance analysis and tuning of platform services.
• Optimize compute, storage, network, and application layer configurations.
• Conduct capacity planning, forecasting, and scalability assessments.
• Assist application teams with performance troubleshooting and platform best practices.

Platform Integration & Customer Enablement

• Integrate data platforms with enterprise services such as Active Directory, monitoring tools, observability platforms, cloud storage, and Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Collaborate with architecture, application, security, and infrastructure teams.
  • Provide technical guidance to internal customers leveraging the platform.