About Persistent

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum by reporting $282.9M revenue in Q1FY24, delivering 17.1% Y-o-Y growth. In addition, our total employee count reached 23,130 people this quarter, located in 21 countries across the globe. We’re also pleased to share that Persistent has been named the fastest-growing Indian IT Services brand by Brand Finance. Acknowledging our vertical industry expertise, we were placed as a Leader in Everest Group’s Payments IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023. We were also recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Engineering Services Quadrants U.S. 2023 and the Salesforce Ecosystem Partners 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ Study. Throughout this market-leading growth, we’ve maintained strong employee satisfaction - over 94% of our employees approve of the CEO, and 89% would recommend working at Persistent to a friend.

About The Role

At Persistent we are searching for a Senior Data Engineer to help guide businesses by improving processes, products, services and software through data analysis. We are looking for our next consultant that will help us to find opportunities and solutions for our client projects. If you are passionate about innovating and enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply today!

Data Engineers are responsible for delivering a variety of engineering services to customers world-wide. Assignments will vary based on the candidate’s skills and experience. Typical assignments may involve cluster installation, ETL, solution design and application development, platform services.

What You'll Do • Master the Data Fabric and Container Platform, including MapR-FS, MapR-DB Binary and JSON Tables, MapR-Streams, Kubernetes, and Eco-System products and maintain proficiency and currency as the technology evolves and advances. • Achieve and maintain proficiency with cluster and framework sizing, installation, debugging, performance optimization, migration, security, and automation. • Achieve proficiency with MapR DB Binary and Json Tables sizing performance tuning and multi-master replication. • Achieve proficiency with MapR Event Stream sizing, performance tuning and multi-master replication. • Ensure the on-time delivery and quality of Professional Service engagements. • Be a technical interface between the customer (Data Science/Data Analysts) and the delivery team, point of escalation between Customer and Product Engineering • Provide best practice in exploiting the software to meet the Customer Use Cases • Providing technical thought-leadership and advisory on technologies and processes at the core of the data domain, as well as data domain adjacent technologies • Engaging and collaborating with both internal and external teams and be a confident participant as well as a leader • Assisting with solution improvement.

What You’ll Bring • 5+ years of experience administering any flavor of Linux. • 3+ years of experience in architecting, administrating, configuring, installation, and maintenance of Open Source Big-data applications, with focused experience on MapR distribution. • 3+ years hands-on experience with supporting Hadoop ecosystem technologies. • Source Big-data applications, with focused experience on MapR or CDP distribution. • Expertise in administration of MapR DB / Hive / HBase / Spark / Oozie / Kafka • Strong scripting skills (Bash or Python preferred). • Familiarity with commercial IT infrastructures including storage, networking, security, virtualization, and systems management. • Good understanding of High availability. • Able to implement Hadoop Data Security using Groups/Roles. • Implement and manage Cluster security. • Ability to troubleshoot problems and quickly resolve issues. • Cluster maintenance as well as creation and removal of nodes. • Performance tuning of Hadoop clusters and Hadoop MapReduce routines. • Screen cluster job performances and capacity planning. • Monitor cluster connectivity and security. • Collaborating with application teams to install operating system and MapR updates, patches, version upgrades when required. • Integration with other Hadoop platforms. • Familiarity with either Ansible, Puppet or Chef. • Familiarity with Kubernetes. • Proficiency in basic Java or Scala programming preferred but not required. • Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience. • Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.

Ideal candidate will have any/all the following: • RHCE certification, Bash or Python scripting, Automation using Ansible, Kubernetes administration, basic knowledge of Spark.

Benefits • 30 days Christmas bonus (Aguinaldo) • 13% Saving fund, capped to the law limit • 12% Grocery coupons, capped to the law limit • 12 vacation days first year + 6 floating days – number of vacation days increase according to seniority • Annual performance evaluation with reward bonus up to 5% of annual salary • Up to USD 200 pre-approved annually for certifications relevant to the employee’s role • Major medical insurance (Spouse and children) • Minor medical insurance (Spouse and children) • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Preferential fleet price for Car Insurance • Life Insurance

Our company fosters a values-driven and people-centric work environment that enables our employees to: • Accelerate growth, both professionally and personally • Impact the world in powerful, positive ways, using the latest technologies • Enjoy collaborative innovation, with diversity and work-life wellbeing at the core • Unlock global opportunities to work and learn with the industry’s best

Let’s unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers

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