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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this Role\nWe are seeking a Big Data Platform Administrator to join the Data Platform Service function in Pune, supporting critical Cloudera Hadoop, Apache Kafka and Apache NiFi platforms.\nThis role focuses on ensuring secure, reliable and efficient platform operations, including production support, troubleshooting NiFi and Kafka data flows, platform upgrades, configuration management, monitoring and automation. 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Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.\nWhat's in it for you\nThe opportunity to administer and support business-critical Hadoop, Kafka and NiFi platforms with direct impact on application and data-flow reliability.\nExposure to complex production environments spanning application, infrastructure and operations teams.\nOpportunities to contribute to platform upgrades, capacity planning, standardisation and operational improvement.\nScope to develop automation that reduces manual effort, improves configuration consistency and prevents recurring operational issues.\nOwnership of technically challenging incidents and platform changes, providing meaningful opportunities to deepen distributed-platform expertise.\nWhat skills you will learn\nEnterprise-scale administration and optimisation of Cloudera Hadoop, Apache Kafka and Apache NiFi.\nAdvanced troubleshooting of distributed systems and flow-based ETL workloads.\nPlatform upgrade, patching and change-management practices for critical production services.\nAnsible-based configuration management and Shell scripting for operational automation.\nPlatform monitoring, capacity planning, security hardening, disaster recovery and service-reliability practices.\nCross-functional incident management, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.\nVOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment\nVodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. 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