Cassandra DBA

Job Title: Cassandra DBA

Location: Denver, CO

Type of hire: Contract

Job Description :

DBA profiles with Cassandra experience particularly with migration experience is required

• Primary responsibility is the support/administration of NOSQL databases, both on-premises and in the cloud and SQL Postgres.
• Design, deploy, and maintain NOSQL database clusters in the development, QA and production environments
• Maintaining a 99.999% availability rate for the database platform.
• Perform debugging, tuning and performance enhancements as well as automation of operational and continuous integration aspects of NOSQL platforms
• Create performance dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics for both OS and latency spikes
• Work with the network, security, and SRE teams to establish a connection between the on-premises and cloud databases and databases hosted on external AWS environments.
• Participate in agile development processes, analyze user requirements, and develop functional specifications for databases in accordance with database standards.

• Design, deploy, and maintain NOSQL database clusters in the development, QA and production environments
• Build the platform in such a way that it can scale in seconds to accommodate peak loads of up to one million transactions per minute
• Perform debugging, tuning and performance enhancements as well as automation of operational and continuous integration aspects of NOSQL platforms
• Participate in agile development processes, analyze user requirements, and develop functional specifications for databases in accordance with database standards.
• Providing assistance with the planning and execution of database upgrades and platform migrations
• Helping teams migrate data from SQL to NOSQL databases.
• Bachelor’s/ Master’s Degree and 5 years of experience as DBA on SQL, NOSQL databases
• Strong technical background on MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase and Postgres
• Experience working in production environments requiring 99.99% availability
• Experience maintaining NOSQL clusters in public cloud platforms
• Strong problem solving, testing and network troubleshooting skills
• Solid experience in database tuning, security, backup and recovery

• Proven experience in handling large scale and growing infrastructure across Data Centers and heterogeneous Cloud platforms