What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer position at Arkhya Tech. Inc.?
Role : Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer
Location : Scottsdale AZ (100% onsite)
Contract
Data infra role -
This position we are interviewing is primary for :
- Cloudera
- Ansible
- AWS
Good to have, but secondary:
- Data Bricks
- DataRobot
- Snowflakes
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and manage scalable data platforms across on-premise and cloud environments. The role involves working with cluster technologies, infrastructure automation, and modern data ecosystems to enable reliable and high-performing data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage data platform infrastructure across on-prem (Cloudera) and cloud (AWS, Databricks) environments
- Build and maintain distributed data clusters ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
- Manage and optimize Cloudera Hadoop ecosystems (HDFS, Hive, Spark, YARN, etc.)
- Deploy and manage Databricks workspaces, clusters, and integrations on AWS
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management best practices
- Monitor cluster performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure system reliability
- Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and DevOps teams to support data pipelines and analytics workloads
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance across data platforms
- Support migration from on-prem to cloud-based data platforms
Technical Skills Required
Core Technologies
- Strong experience in Cloudera (CDH/CDP) cluster setup and administration
- Hands-on experience with Databricks (cluster management, jobs, notebooks)
- Strong exposure to AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EMR, networking concepts)
Infrastructure & Automation
- Expertise in Terraform (mandatory) for infrastructure provisioning
- Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
Cluster & Data Technologies
- Experience managing distributed systems / cluster technologies
- Strong understanding of:
- Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Kafka, etc.)
- Spark performance tuning and cluster optimization
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus