[Hiring] Private Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Engineer @Cloudera

Role Description

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Cloudera is looking for a Private Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team in Prague. You will own the day-to-day operations of our private cloud platform, including:

• Monitoring health, managing resources, enforcing governance, and ensuring consumers get reliable, efficient service.
• Contributing to wider infrastructure operations, supporting compute and storage services across data center environments.
• Being the person between the platform and its users, keeping it running well, holding consumers accountable for efficiency, and reporting clearly on operational state.

As a Private Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Engineer you will:

• Monitor platform health, utilisation, and capacity across all private cloud environments.
• Manage compute provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle operations.
• Track resource utilisation and deliver reporting - driving efficiency and accountability.
• Manage quotas, resolve capacity issues, and plan for growth.
• Provide first-line operational support - triage incidents, apply known fixes, escalate appropriately.
• Enforce operational standards, access controls, and governance policies.
• Manage environment intake and provisioning for consumers.
• Support compute and storage infrastructure operations (server lifecycle, Ceph storage, shared services).
• Maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
• Participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure services.
• Contribute to infrastructure efficiency and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Relevant studies / BS or MS in related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years operating cloud or virtualised infrastructure at scale.
• Strong Linux systems administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
• Hands-on experience with distributed storage (Ceph preferred) or SAN operations.
• Experience with monitoring stacks, dashboards, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Virtualisation experience (KVM, VMware, or similar).
• A governance mindset - comfortable enforcing standards, reporting compliance, holding consumers accountable for waste.
• Ability to author and maintain clear runbooks, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Strong communication - can translate technical state into clear reporting for stakeholders.

Requirements

• OpenStack or Taikun operational experience (strongly preferred).
• Kubernetes cluster operations (node management, cluster lifecycle).
• Server hardware lifecycle (rack, commission, decommission, IPMI/iDRAC/iLO).
• Automation experience (Ansible, Terraform, scripting).
• ITSM/ITIL awareness (incident, change, problem management).
• Team leadership or mentoring experience.
• FinOps or cost attribution experience.

Benefits

• Generous PTO Policy.
• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days.
• Flexible WFH Policy.
• Mental & Physical Wellness programs.
• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program.
• Access to Continued Career Development.
• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages.
• Paid Volunteer Time.
• Employee Resource Groups.