Cassandra Database Consultant

Employment Type: Full Time Location Type: Remote Location: India

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 from ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases to expanding our competencies in advanced analytics and embracing AI. We empower organizations to leverage advanced technologies and deliver innovative solutions, building strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. Our extensive expertise in data and cloud, combined with our ability to stay at the forefront of bleeding-edge technologies, makes us the ideal partner for mid and large-sized businesses transforming in today's rapidly changing digital economy.

Why you?

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

Working as a Cassandra Database Consultant at Pythian offers the opportunity to hone your skills and grow your career with broad knowledge across various platforms and technologies. If this sounds like you, reach out to discover what life at Pythian is like!

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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 ensure adequate infrastructure capacity.
• Participate in company and team meetings.
• Engage in 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 is 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.