Cassandra Platform Engineer: Multi-DC & Cloud

Webhosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DigiCert is seeking an Apache Cassandra Administrator to design, automate, build, operate, and enhance distributed Cassandra services supporting customer-facing SaaS platforms. You will collaborate with a global team to create highly available and scalable databases with strong focus on performance, resilience, monitoring, and disaster recovery in large-scale environments.

The role emphasizes managing multi-datacenter clusters, implementing replication and consistency strategies, and providing

Qualifications

• 3+ years administering Apache Cassandra in production environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts (replication, partitioning, consistency).
• Experience with Cassandra architecture, internals, and data modeling.
• Expertise in performance tuning (compaction, JVM, GC tuning).
• Experience managing multi-node, multi-datacenter clusters.
• Strong Linux systems administration knowledge.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Apache Cassandra clusters across multi-datacenter environments.
• Build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed database architectures.
• Perform capacity planning, scaling, and performance tuning for Cassandra workloads.
• Implement replication strategies, consistency levels, and data distribution models.
• Monitor cluster health using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Troubleshoot node failures, latency, compaction, and data consistency issues.
• Develop automation using Terraform, Salt Stack, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Support migrations from legacy databases to Cassandra-based solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema design and workload optimization.
• Provide on-call support and participate in rotating shifts as needed.

Skills

Cassandra administration

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Multi-datacenter clusters

Linux

Cloud platforms

Troubleshooting

Terraform

Ansible

Monitoring tools

Tools

Terraform

Salt Stack

Ansible

Job description

DigiCert is seeking an Apache Cassandra Administrator to design, automate, build, operate, and enhance distributed Cassandra services supporting customer-facing SaaS platforms. You will collaborate with a global team to create highly available and scalable databases with strong focus on performance, resilience, monitoring, and disaster recovery in large-scale environments.

The role emphasizes managing multi-datacenter clusters, implementing replication and consistency strategies, and providing