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Prodapt North America

Druid Administrator / Data Platform Engineer

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What they do

A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.

$126,754 / year median in Texas

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Job Description

Prodapt is the largest specialized player in the Connectedness industry. As an AI-first strategic technology partner, Prodapt provides consulting, business reengineering, and managed services for the largest telecom and tech enterprises building networks and digital experiences of tomorrow. A ServiceNow-invested company, Prodapt has been recognized by Gartner as a Large, Telecom-Native, Regional IT Service Provider. A Great Place To Work® Certified company, Prodapt employs over 4,000 technology and domain experts across the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, & Japan. Prodapt is part of the 130-year-old business conglomerate The Jhaver Group, which employs over 32,000 people across 80+ locations globally.

Responsibilities:

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.

Job Requirement:

Hands-on 7+ years of experience administering Apache Druid in production environments at scale.

Strong understanding of Druid architecture:

Coordinator, Overload, Broker, Historical, MiddleManager, Router. Proficiency in Druid ingestion specifications (Native batch, Kafka, Hadoop-based). Experience with compaction, retention policies, and segment lifecycle management. Expertise in query optimization and partitioning strategies for large datasets.

Education:

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.