Cassandra Database Consultant

Employment Type: Full Time Location Type: Remote Location: Mexico

Why Pythian?

At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Founded in 1997, Pythian has built a reputation for solving tough data challenges, evolving with the industry from on-premises to cloud environments and expanding our competencies to include advanced analytics. Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. Our extensive expertise in data and cloud, combined with our ability to stay on top of the latest bleeding-edge technologies, makes us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

Why You?

Are you an experienced Cassandra DBA? Are you passionate about planning, designing, and implementing new solutions? Do you enjoy evaluating existing solutions and helping to build automation tooling and processes to improve systems?

Working as a Cassandra Database Consultant at Pythian can hone your skills, helping you grow in your career with a breadth of knowledge in platforms and technologies that few professionals can claim.

If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out!

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What You Will Be Doing:

• Focus on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health checks.
• Design and help implement new Cassandra deployments.
• Evaluate existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices.
• Debug high priority issues on mission-critical production environments.
• Engage with the Cassandra community through user lists, IRC, blog posts, webinars, and open-source projects.
• Contribute to rapid brainstorming, designing, and developing of prototypes.
• Automate and provide documentation on operational procedures.
• Train and mentor junior team members.
• Provide performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity.
• Participate in company and team meetings.
• Continued education in Pythian’s Operations as a Service supported stack.
• Provide on-call support in your team’s on-call rotational schedule.

What We Need From You:

While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be successful you are likely to have skills and experience such as:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Over 2 to 3 years of experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, Scylla, CockroachDB. Cassandra experience preferred.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Shell, Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, Ansible), with Shell and Python being preferred.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with web applications, distributed systems, and databases.
• Familiarity with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems.
• Understanding of continuous integration and automation practices.
• Knowledge of multiple monitoring, alerting, and metric collection systems.
• An understanding of current IT service standards, such as ITIL.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• A self-motivated and directed approach to working in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong...