Job Description
Job Description
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Role : Sr Cassandra Database Administrator
Location : San Jose , CA (Hybrid, 1 day remote in a week)
Duration : Contract (W2 Only)
Job Description :
In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for maintaining and supporting a production-grade Cassandra environment and ensuring database health, performance, and availability.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, understands Cassandra architecture inside and out, and has strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for performance issues.
Duties :
- Documents and implements requirements and solution design
- Reviews and provides feedback for system design solutions that will impact their area
- Provides input to system capacity plans
- Participates in installation and configuration activities
- Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
- Performs systems resource optimization (e.g., performance tuning activities)
- Participates in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems currency
- Participates in implementing resource management and monitoring methods and tools
- Develops, implements, monitors and administers system access, resources, backups and DB maintenance processes or jobs
- Provides input for performance management and capacity planning
- Participates in systems management and Security Compliance activities
- Supports resolution of production incidents
- Their work within their domain(e.g., Oracle DBA)
- Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
- Suggests process improvement and best practices
- Iterates and improves upon stable technologies and processes
- Provides work effort planning and estimates for system administration and engineering work
- Justifies decisions and achieves peer consent
- Sphere of influence is across IT Teams
- Actively shares technical knowledge within domain their team and others
- Collaborates with other DBAs, Developers and TDS Systems Engineers
- Mentors co-workers within areas of expertise
- Participates in staff recruiting
- Works with contract resources and provides guidance
- Self-directing and provides direction to other DBAs in their domain
Must Have :
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cassandra Database Administrator.Strong knowledge of Cassandra architecture, configuration, and tuning.Proficiency with patching and upgrading Cassandra in a production environment.Demonstrated experience in schema design, performance troubleshooting, and handling large-scale distributed systems.Comfortable supporting a 24x7 environment, including shared on-call rotation.Proven experience in looking at , pulling & using data (data manipulation)Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced setting.Powered by JazzHR
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