Redis Administrator

Net2Source (N2S); New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services firm is seeking a skilled Redis Administrator to manage and optimize their Redis infrastructure. This role involves installing, configuring, and maintaining Redis clusters, as well as implementing high availability and disaster recovery strategies. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Redis, performance tuning, and monitoring tools. Additional requirements include knowledge of cloud environments like AWS and Azure, along with some familiarity with Kubernetes. This position is crucial for ensuring the efficiency and security of Redis operations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Redis including standalone, clustered and sentinel architectures.
• Solid understanding of caching strategies, memory management, eviction policies, persistence modes (RDB, AOF).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain Redis server instances, clusters, and sentinel setups.
• Manage Redis high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.
• Monitor Redis performance and proactively resolve latency, memory and throughput issues.
• Optimize Redis configuration parameters for caching, persistence and data eviction policies.
• Implement and maintain Redis security including TLS authentication and access control.
• Perform backup, restore and data migration operations.

Skills

Redis clusters management

Performance tuning

High availability configurations

Monitoring distributed caching systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

RedisInsight

ELK

AWS ElastiCache

Azure Cache for Redis

GCP MemoryStore

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We are seeking a skilled Redis Administrator to manage, optimize and maintain our Redis infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Redis clusters, performance tuning, high availability configurations, and monitoring distributed caching systems in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Install configure and maintain Redis server instances clusters and sentinel setups
• Manage Redis high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies
• Monitor Redis performance and proactively resolve latency, memory and throughput issues
• Optimize Redis configuration parameters for caching, persistence and data eviction policies
• Implement and maintain Redis security including TLS authentication and access control
• Perform backup, restore and data migration operations

Required Skills Qualifications

• Strong experience with Redis including standalone, clustered and sentinel architectures
• Solid understanding of caching strategies, memory management, eviction policies, persistence modes (RDB, AOF)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, RedisInsight, ELK, etc.)
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis, GCP MemoryStore)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and running Redis on K8s (Helm charts, Operators)
• Familiarity with Redis modules (RediSearch, RedisJSON, RedisGraph, etc.)
• Certifications related to cloud, DevOps, or database administration
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab)