Cassandra DBA

Now100; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Now100 is seeking a Cassandra DBA for client projects in Atlanta, GA or Dallas, TX (Remote). The role focuses on designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed Cassandra databases with strong cloud experience.

Candidates should have 5–7+ years in NoSQL environments, scripting and automation skills (Terraform, Ansible, Chef), and experience with related databases and cloud platforms. This contract position offers 6+ months of work and rapid impact on data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years designing, building, maintaining, and administering NoSQL databases with Cassandra.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle DB or Graph DBs is required.
• Cloud experience (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure also acceptable).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy highly scalable Cassandra clusters in cloud environments.
• Maintain and optimize database performance, backups, and recovery procedures.
• Develop monitoring and automation to ensure 24x7 availability.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver data solutions.
• Handle database upgrades, migrations, and incident response with root-cause analysis.

Skills

Cassandra

NoSQL databases

Cloud platforms

UNIX scripting

Performance tuning

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Job description

We are looking for a Cassandra DBA for one of our clients here in Atlanta, GA or Dallas, TX.

Position Details

• Role: DBA - Cassandra
• Duration: 6+ Months
• Location: Atlanta, GA / Dallas, TX (Remote)
• No of positions: 2

Requirements & Responsibilities

• Required 5-7+ years of working experience in Design, Build, Maintenance, and Administration of NoSQL distributed database systems like Datastax Cassandra and good experience on Legacy Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle DB, Graph DBs, etc. Needs to have experience in Google Cloud Platform or similar Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience in Designing and deploying Highly Scalable Cassandra Database clusters on Cloud.
• Proficient in scripting languages and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef required Skills
• Cockroach DB (Distributed SQL Database). So distributed database systems deployment Support and ACID Databases Support knowledge required
• Strong Experience handling common database procedures, such as upgrades, backups, recovery, migration, maintenance, etc.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and deployment of large-scale web and database infrastructures that are highly available, performing, cost-effective, and sustainable.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts in enhancing performance and providing increased functionality.
• Work with internal and external customers to develop new value-added programs and data solutions with the existing data structure.
• Strong knowledge of Cassandra schema, CQL query, Cassandra command-line utility, and DataStax ops center.
• Experience with GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Google managed databases.(Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, CloudSQL, etc..) is big plus
• Defining and delivering robust monitoring solutions for database tiers that encompass both infrastructure and application-level perspectives.
• Extensive experience with designing and implementing database infrastructure and processes to support true 24x7x365 operations, by reaching the expectation of no downtime for database maintenance.
• Analyzing incidents, performance, metrics, and trends to proactively identify and resolve potential site issues before they develop.
• Proactively analyze performance to identify bottlenecks and handle incidents, bugs, and provide solutions with root cause analysis.
• Performance monitoring and query fine-tuning, Problem determination and troubleshooting, interacting with UNIX and Application group and playing a diverse role with a large team of DBREs.

About Now100

Part of 100 Holdings Group, Now100 is Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Now100 offers the highest quality professionals and solutions to help clients with their complex technology needs.

Now100 is committed to understanding our clients’ needs and providing solutions that not only meet but exceed their expectations.

Now100 is committed to understanding our clients’ needs and providing solutions that not only meet but exceed our expectations.

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