Cassandra admin

12-month contract with likely extensions:

Responsibilities

• Database performance analysis and operations review for production database platforms

• Manage database operations activities including incident response, database alert resolution, and managing third party support engagement

• Deploy and maintain database monitoring solutions.

• Test and build database restore and recovery procedures

• Database platform deployment, installation, patching, change management, and third-party software upgrades.

• Responsible for database hardening procedure identification and deployment on public cloud, hosted, and on-premises platforms.

• Responsible for providing database expertise and operations support to the technical support teams and project delivery teams.

• Responsible for participating in database platform review, bench and tuning exercises, security evaluation, provide technical analysis and proactive recommendations for improvements and/or design changes for production platforms

Requirements

• HS diploma with 8+ experience in Cassandra administration (NOT architecture or design)

• College degree in Computer Science preferred + 8-10 years' experience

• NOSQL Database: 8-10 years Cassandra administration

• background with public cloud database deployment, management, and migration.

• Expertise in database concepts, defining standards, processes, and procedures in database deployment methodologies

• Expert in operations of high-profile production database platforms with high SLA and high-performance expectation

• High level of experience in managing change on production database platform on hosted, on premise, and cloud database platforms

• Expert in deploying high availability database architectures

• Proactive, team player, and leadership qualities with strong technical background

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Highly skilled in Cassandra database administration

• DataStax enterprise Cassandra administration a plus

• Strong production operations and troubleshooting skills

• Linux operating system background

• Skilled in Public Cloud deployment methods/tools (Gitlab, Terraform, Datadog)

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

• Database performance evaluation and platform bench participation