KDB+ / Q Engineer

Momento USA is a global technology consulting, talent acquisition and creative development firm that addresses clients most pressing needs and challenges.

We currently looking for KDB+ / Q Engineer our client location based on - NYC, NY. Please see the job description below for your reference.

KDB+ / Q Engineer

NYC, NY

6+ Months contract (with possible extension)

Job Description:

KDB+ / Q Engineer

Primary skill: KDB+ / Q (KDB+ is an ultra-low latency high performance time series DB that is used by quant / trading firms that drive millisecond efficiency). Q is the programming language to interact with KDB+ databases.

Client has a huge installation of on-premises instances / servers (e.g., KDB deployment). The vision is to develop monitoring / alerting capability to sense when bottlenecks might happen, to proactively address these situations, and build state-of-the-art

Discovery

• Current KDB+/Q server deployment, usage patterns, and SLAs
• Capture Inventory of available metrics, logs, and traces
• Capture data ingestion and query pathways, including latency and throughput

Assessment

• Evaluate existing monitoring tools (i.e., Cerebro, Telegraf, custom tools) used in monitoring and managing the KDB+ ecosystem and custom code
• Identify gaps or inefficiencies in current monitoring coverage
• Analyze the integration points and data consumption patterns of applications interacting with KDB+
• Understand key application dependencies and performance considerations

Analytics/Telemetry Dashboard

• Design and implementation of dashboards by aligning with Client on what level the dashboards will be aggregated at, and then to visualize Service Level Indicators (SLIs) such as disk space utilization, query latency, system availability, CPU/memory usage, and error rates
• Recommendations for SLI thresholds and alerting

Deliverables

Overall Optimization of Telemetry:

• Server environment profile report: Generate automated report based on programmatically collected info on server specs, KDB versions, process topology, and deployment architecture
• Data aggregation (Process & Session): List of in-scope running processes, user sessions, and their configurations, and aggregating the data for analysis
• Resource Utilization and Server Log Analysis: Report and dashboard summarizing latency, CPU, memory, disk, and network usage patterns, and recommendations for tuning and optimization to Client team to perform
• Query Performance Analysis: Identification and profiling of slow or resource-intensive queries, with optimization suggestions
• Performance Dashboard: Visual dashboard for real-time monitoring of defined metrics.

Note: Momento USA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.