Cassandra DBA

Capgemini; Connecticut; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Platform Engineer with expertise in managing Cassandra clusters and AWS Cloud. The successful candidate will design, deploy, and optimize on-prem environments, while supporting migrations to cloud solutions. Offering a comprehensive benefits package, this position drives professional development and work-life balance.

Benefits

Healthcare including dental and vision

401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Paid parental leave

Family building benefits

Mentoring and coaching programs

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering, with 5+ years on AWS.
• 3+ years managing Cassandra environments.
• Strong understanding of NoSQL platforms and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage on-prem Cassandra clusters.
• Support customer migration to AWS Keyspaces and DynamoDB.
• Automate tasks using Infrastructure as Code.

Skills

Cassandra management

AWS Cloud platform

Distributed systems

Linux systems administration

Troubleshooting

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Monitoring tools

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Key Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and manage on-prem Cassandra clusters in production environments.
• Optimize Cassandra performance through tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Implement and maintain backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with application teams to integrate / remediate Cassandra into business-critical systems.
• Support and implement customer in migrating workloads to AWS Keyspaces and DynamoDB.
• Automate engineering and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting, and configuration management tools.
• Build and maintain observability tooling for monitoring system health and performance.
• Respond to incidents and outages with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Ensure data security, compliance, and adherence to internal and external standards.

Required Skills:
• Overall 8+ yrs in platform engineering experience
• 5+ on AWS Cloud platform/Infrastructure engineering
• 3+ years of experience managing Cassandra environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and NoSQL platforms.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., newrelic, splunk, Cloudwatch, Grafana, etc.).
• Proficiency in Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python, etc.).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
• Familiarity with AWS services, especially Keyspaces and DynamoDB.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Desired Skills:
Experience with cloud migrations and hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of security best practices in data infrastructure.
• Contributions to open-source Cassandra projects or community involvement.

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to
engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

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