Job description

Data Engineer with Hadoop Location: Cracow (6 days per month)

About the Role: We are currently looking for a Data Engineer with Hadoop to join a dynamic Data Platform team. The role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale, global data solutions designed to enable innovation and improve data accessibility across business units. You'll contribute to the modernization and automation of a hybrid platform that spans on-premises and multi-cloud environments (GCP and private cloud).

This role focuses on enhancing platform resilience, building automation tools, and improving developer experience for data engineering teams. It involves both back-end and front-end work, including integration with CI/CD tools, service management systems, and internal applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop automation tools and integrate existing solutions within a complex platform ecosystem

• Provide technical support and design for Hadoop Big Data platforms (Cloudera preferred)

• Manage user access and security (Kerberos, Ranger, Knox, TLS, etc.)

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible

• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and system monitoring

• Collaborate with architects and developers to design scalable and resilient solutions

• Deliver operational support and improve engineering tooling for platform management

• Analyze existing processes and design improvements to reduce complexity and manual work

Challenges You’ll Tackle:

• Building scalable automation in a diverse ecosystem of tools and frameworks

• Enhancing service resilience and reducing operational toil

• Supporting the adoption of AI agents and real-time data capabilities

• Integrating with corporate identity, CI/CD, and service management tools

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams in a global environment

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in engineering Big Data environments (on-prem or cloud)

• Strong understanding of Hadoop ecosystem: Hive, Spark, HDFS, Kafka, YARN, Zookeeper

• Hands-on experience with Cloudera distribution setup, upgrades, and performance tuning

• Proven experience with scripting (Shell, Linux utilities) and Hadoop system management

• Knowledge of security protocols: Apache Ranger, Kerberos, Knox, TLS, encryption

• Experience in large-scale data processing and optimizing Apache Spark jobs

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Ansible for infrastructure automation

• Experience working in Agile or hybrid development environments (Agile, Kanban)

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in globally distributed teams

To learn more about Antal, please visit www.antal.pl