What are the responsibilities and job description for the Druid Platform Engineer position at cloudingest inc?
Druid Platform Engineer
Location : Irving, TX
Rtae : $60/hr on C2C
Job Description
- Design, deploy, administer, and optimize large-scale Apache Druid clusters supporting PB-scale datasets.
- Manage and troubleshoot Druid services.
- Perform cluster upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and platform modernization activities.
- Monitor cluster health, ingestion performance, query latency, segment distribution, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot ingestion failures, stuck tasks, compaction issues, retention policies, and segment management problems.
- Optimize Druid queries, partitioning strategies, indexing specifications, and compaction configurations.
- Configure and maintain Druid metadata stores using MySQL.
- Develop operational automation using Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
- Create dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and logging platforms.
- Work with platform teams to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and security compliance.
- Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and performance tuning initiatives.
- Collaborate with architects and business teams to understand analytical requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
Salary : $60