Gentis Solutions is looking for an experienced Cassandra engineer who's excited about building large scale distributed database systems. The engineer will be responsible for assisting with the design, implementation, and on-going support of Cassandra services in on-premise and cloud installations.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of solid Cassandra DBA experience in managing/supporting critical 24/7 applications.
- 5+ years of experience administration, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Cassandra (open source and DataStax) database in multi-datacenter environments.
- Must have hands-on experience in setting up DSE/Cassandra cluster.
- Must have experience in loading data into Cassandra cluster from other data sources.
- Strong understanding of complex inner workings of Cassandra.
- A deep understanding of Cassandra design principals, cluster connectivity, security and the factors that affect distributed system performance.
- Expert in data structure design, data modelling in Cassandra.
- Experience with Cassandra schema design, performance tuning and CQL queries.
- Solid experience in Solr and Spark implementation of DSE.
- Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and DR.
- Experience in Cassandra build pipelines using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Shell script etc.
- Experience in Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, Stash, TeamCity is a plus.
- Experience in large cloud-computing environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) is a plus.
- Comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment.
- Completes work independently and a self-starter.
- Demonstrated a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.
- Must be able to communicate technical information clearly.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Manage large scale multi-nodes DSE/Cassandra cluster environments.
- Handle all Cassandra environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
- Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Cassandra database.
- Participation in a 24x7 support rotation.
- Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance and overall health of the cluster.
- Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as for storage infrastructure.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
- Closely collaborate with managers, architects, lead engineers and developers.
- Ensure existing data/information assets are secure and adhering to best in class security model.
- Manage backup and recovery functions.
- Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for both database and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability
Gentis Solutions offers excellent compensation and benefits including: higher wages than regional averages, full health, dental, vision, 401K, and two weeks of paid time off in year one.