Job Description
Job Title: L3 – Senior Iceberg DBA / Lakehouse Operations Engineer
Location : Remote work accepted from anywhere in US
Duration : 12+ Months Contract
Teams Meeting Interview
Job Description:
- 10+ years of experience in Big Data / Data Engineering / DBA / Data Operations roles
- Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg in production environments
- 6+ years of experience working with Cloudera ecosystem (CDP Ecosystem)
- Strong expertise in:
- Iceberg table optimization (compaction, metadata management, partition evolution)
- Multi-engine performance tuning (Spark, Hive, Impala)
- Troubleshooting complex data and query performance issues
- Proven experience handling:
- P1/P2 production incidents
- Large-scale environments (TB/PB scale)
- Data migration initiatives (Hive/Teradata → Iceberg)
- Lead enforcement of data modeling and Lakehouse standards across applications
- Guide teams on:
- Medallion architecture implementation
- Balancing normalization vs performance
- Review and resolve complex data modeling and performance trade-offs
- Ensure consistency of data structures across domains and workloads
- Mentor and guide L2 resources in operational best practices and troubleshooting