Cassandra Database Administrator

Experience-Total-5 years

Relevant-3 years

Roles and Responsibilities:
1. 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience in Cassandra
2. DBA experience in a SRE environment will be an advantage.
3. Experience in Automation/building databases by providing self-service tools. analyze and implement solutions for database administration (e.g., backups, performance tuning, Troubleshooting, Capacity planning)
4. Analyze solutions and implement best practices for cloud database and their components.
5. Build and enhance tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows (Jenkins etc.) that provide safe self-service capabilities to the SRE team and software engineering teams
6. Implement proactive monitoring and alerting to detect issues before they impact users. Use a metrics-driven approach to identify and root cause performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system.
7. Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
8. Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
9. Monitor database performance, control access permissions and privileges, capacity planning, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required.
10. Recommend query and schema changes to optimize the performance of database queries.
11. Have experience with cloud-based environments (OCI, AWS) as well as On-Premises.
12. Have experience with cloud database such as SQL server, Oracle, Cassandra
13. Have experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Jira, Confluence, Ansible, Gitlab, Terraform)
14. Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.