DevOps Engineer Distributed Data (Cassandra)

ING Group; Katowice; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ING Hubs Poland is seeking a skilled Engineer IV to oversee and maintain Cassandra services in a collaborative environment. This is a critical role involving customer support, data management automation, and ensuring platform stability. The ideal candidate will thrive on delivering high-quality solutions and possess extensive experience in NoSQL, Linux, and automation tools. Join a passionate team focused on innovation and adaptability in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in an operational environment.
• Experience in platform engineering and NoSQL solutions.
• Proficient in scripting languages like Python or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of Cassandra Keyspace as a Service.
• Lifecycle maintenance of the Cassandra and Linux stack.
• Delivering support and training for data-modelling.

Skills

Data driven mindset

Automation

Customer focus

Education

B2 Level English

Tools

Cassandra

Linux

CI/CD tools

Ansible

Grafana

Kibana

Prometheus

Job description

ING Hubs Poland is hiring!

We are looking for you, if you:

• are enthusiastic data driven engineer who loves metrics,
• have 5+ years of experience in operational environment,
• have experience in platform engineering,
• have solid understanding of operating, maintaining and developing against NoSQL/Low Latency Data Store (LLDS) Solutions link e.g. Cassandra,
• have ability to use tools scripting languages like Python, Bash to automate daily tasks,
• have good understanding of the Linux operating system (Rhel and Debian),
• have knowledge of CI/CD tools from Microsoft Azure and configuration management tools like Ansible,
• are focused on delivering quality above quantity,
• are customer focused and proactive.

English level - B2

You'll get extra points for:

• knowledge of Java,
• knowledge of other scripting languages,
• knowledge of other databases,
• knowledge of tools like: Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus,
• strong conceptual understanding of the big picture.

Your responsibilities:

• take ownership of Cassandra Keyspace as a Service that the squad provides to tenants,
• understanding the detailed technical behaviour of your system under normal and peak loads,
• life cycle maintenance of the Cassandra and Linux stack,
• automating the onboarding process for new Cassandra users,
• continuously monitor and improve efficiency, quality and time-to-market through in-depth automation of building, testing and deployment,
• deliver high quality support and training for data-modelling and application design to users,
• take part in our 24/7 standby schedule - once a week,
• a large part of this function will be customer support and owning the platform, knowing what is happening and communicating with our clients.

Information about the squad:

The Minions squad provides Cassandra Keyspace as a Service (KaaS) on our multitenant and dedicated Cassandra clusters. KaaS is provided as a complete journey, our centre of expertise provides continued support and advice to teams using Cassandra. The Minions squad strives to be ahead of the game by keeping a close eye on all the metrics and logs to detect possible interruptions before they happen. Tools like Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus are essential in our strive to provide a performant and resilient platform.

At ING Hubs Poland we follow the Agile approach, using flexible frameworks like Scrum and Kanban at our everyday work. We are innovative and we trust people we work with. The broad autonomy our employees have, stimulates motivation and creativity what allows us to adapt to the changing requirements of business partners.

The role naming convention in the global ING job architecture will be “Engineer IV”