Cassandra DBA

We are looking for a Cassandra DBA for one of our clients here in Atlanta, GA or Dallas, TX. Please find the position details below and let me know your interest in this.

• Role: DBA - Cassandra
• Duration: 6+ Months
• Location: Atlanta, GA / Dallas, TX (Remote)
• No of positions: 2

Required 5-7+ years of working experience in Design, Build, Maintenance, and Administration of NoSQL distributed database systems like Datastax Cassandra and good experience on Legacy Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle DB, Graph DBs, etc. Needs to have experience in Google Cloud Platform or similar Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Experience in Designing and deploying Highly Scalable Cassandra Database clusters on Cloud.
• Proficient in scripting languages and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef required Skills
• Cockroach DB (Distributed SQL Database). So distributed database systems deployment Support and ACID Databases Support knowledge required
• Strong Experience handling common database procedures, such as upgrades, backups, recovery, migration, maintenance, etc.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and deployment of large-scale web and database infrastructures that are highly available, performing, cost-effective, and sustainable.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing performance and providing increased functionality.
• Work with internal and external customers to develop new value-added programs and data solutions with the existing data structure.
• Strong knowledge of Cassandra schema, CQL query, Cassandra command-line utility, and DataStax ops center.
• Experience with GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Google managed databases.(Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, CloudSQL, etc..) is big plus
• Defining and delivering robust monitoring solutions for database tiers that encompass both infrastructure and application-level perspectives.
• Extensive experience with designing and implementing database infrastructure and processes to support true 24x7x365 operations, by reaching the expectation of no downtime for database maintenance.
• Analyzing incidents, performance, metrics, and trends to proactively identify and resolve potential site issues before they develop.
• Proactively analyze performance to identify bottlenecks and handle incidents, bugs, and provide solutions with root cause analysis.
• Performance monitoring and query fine-tuning, Problem determination and troubleshooting, interacting with UNIX and Application group and playing a diverse role with a large team of DBREs.

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