Senior Solutions Consultant (Hadoop/Open Data Platform)

Location: California, United States; Workplace: On-site

Company

hirify.global provides the Open Data Platform and Data Observability Cloud for enterprise data environments.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end architecture and deployment of ODP clusters managed through Apache Ambari.
• Define cluster topology and prepare RHEL or Ubuntu infrastructure, including networking, firewall configuration, SELinux, PackageKit, and system tuning.
• Design and deliver secure deployments in firewalled and air-gapped data centers using local repositories or trusted HTTP proxies.
• Provision and configure Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL/MariaDB databases, schemas, users, and JDBC drivers for core platform services.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot ecosystem components through Ambari Management Packs, including Spark, Kafka, Flink, NiFi, Ozone, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, JupyterHub, and MLflow.
• Guide customer infrastructure, security, and DBA teams, document target-state architecture and runbooks, and coordinate with hirify.global engineering and account teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of customer-facing product implementation experience involving end-to-end data architectures, migrations, and deployments.
• Deep knowledge of Apache Hadoop, including HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Hive, and ZooKeeper.
• Strong Linux administration skills on RHEL and/or Ubuntu, including network configuration, firewall rules, and system tuning.
• Practical experience with Kerberos, SSL/TLS, LDAP/AD, and Apache Ranger in enterprise environments.
• Ability to write and troubleshoot code in Java, Python, or Scala, with working knowledge of Java and Python runtime stacks.
• Excellent communication skills, architectural consulting ability, and autonomy in complex customer projects.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cloudera CDH/CDP or Hortonworks HDP distributions.
• Familiarity with several ODP ecosystem components such as Spark, Kafka, NiFi, Trino, Ozone, or MLflow.
• Experience working in regulated, secured, or air-gapped environments.
• Experience solving difficult technical problems in Kubernetes.
• Professional services, consulting, or prior customer-facing experience in enterprise environments.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture with ownership of high-impact technical problems from day one.
• Regular customer engagement and working sessions with infrastructure, security, and database teams.
• Willingness to support different time zones is expected.
• Travel to meet customers may be required up to 50% of the time.