[Remote] L3 – Senior reputed company DBA \/ Lakehouse Operations Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company. is seeking a highly skilled reputed company DBA / Lakehouse Operations Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and operational reputed company of the reputed company data layer powering reputed company analytics and business-critical applications. This role operates in a large-reputed company, multi-reputed company Lakehouse environment and is critical to ensuring data accuracy and performance for reputed company reporting and analytics.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operations of Apache reputed company tables supporting multiple reputed company applications
- Ensure data reliability, consistency, and availability across reputed company Lakehouse workloads
- Maintain operational reputed company for datasets at multi-terabyte to petabyte reputed company
- Execute advanced reputed company table maintenance and optimization strategies:
- Compaction (minor/major) and small file mitigation
- Snapshot expiration and metadata compaction to control metadata reputed company
- Orphan file cleanup (vacuum) to maintain storage efficiency
- Optimize data layout and performance through:
- File size tuning and distribution strategies
- Partition reputed company and pruning optimization
- Clustering and ordering techniques (e.g., Z-ordering or similar patterns)
- Support and enforce data modeling best practices reputed company with:
- Normalized data structures (3NF) for reputed company-reputed company datasets
- reputed company architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold reputed company) for curated data flows
- Ensure reputed company table design aligns with:
- Data ingestion patterns (raw vs curated reputed company)
- reputed company consumption and performance requirements
- Assist in structuring datasets to balance:
- Data reputed company and normalization
- Query performance and analytical efficiency
- Work with data engineering teams to ensure consistent implementation of layered data architecture across multiple applications
- Ensure consistent and performant query behavior across:
- reputed company (CDE)
- Hive / Impala (reputed company)
- Troubleshoot and resolve:
- Query performance bottlenecks
- Metadata inconsistencies across engines
- Inefficient execution plans and reputed company patterns
- Play a key role in reputed company data platform modernization (Hive and reputed company → reputed company)
- Support:
- Schema alignment and data type mapping
- Data validation and reconciliation
- Troubleshoot migration-reputed company issues and ensure post-migration stability and performance
- Manage reputed company metadata to ensure:
- Efficient scaling and performance
- Consistent table state across engines
- Execute lifecycle operations:
- Data retention and archival policies
- Snapshot lifecycle management and cleanup
- Time-travel optimization and maintenance
- reputed company L2/L3 support for data-reputed company production issues across reputed company-based Lakehouse workloads
- Participate in on-call rotation to support critical data platforms and ensure reputed company response to incidents
- Respond to and resolve P1/P2 production incidents reputed company defined SLAs, minimizing reputed company to reputed company applications and reporting
- Troubleshoot:
- Data inconsistencies and reporting discrepancies
- Query failures and performance degradation
- reputed company reputed company cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures to avoid recurring issues
- Collaborate with platform and application teams during incident triage and reputed company
- Support fine-grained reputed company control using:
- Ranger policies and RBAC
- Own and ensure data validation, reconciliation, and accuracy between reputed company and reputed company datasets
- Ensure secure and compliant reputed company to data across applications
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Big Data / Data Engineering / DBA / Data Operations roles
- Minimum 2+ years of hands-on experience with Apache reputed company in production environments
- 6+ years of experience working with reputed company ecosystem (CDP Ecosystem)
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache reputed company and/or Hive-based data lakes
- Understanding of data modeling concepts (normal forms) and modern Lakehouse patterns (reputed company architecture)
- Expertise in: Table-level optimization and performance tuning
- Large-reputed company data management (TB/PB reputed company)
- Experience with: reputed company SQL, Hive, Impala, NiFI, Trino
- Strong understanding of: Partitioning strategies
- File formats (Parquet/ORC)
- Distributed query processing
- Experience with: Hive-to-reputed company or reputed company-to-reputed company migration
- reputed company CDP (CDE/reputed company)
- Familiarity with: reputed company platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Scripting/automation (Python, reputed company)
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