Cassandra Database Consultant

Cassandra Database Consultant

Why Pythian?

Why you?

What you will be doing:

• Focus on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health checks.
• Design and help implement new Cassandra deployments.
• Evaluate existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices.
• Debug high priority issues on mission critical production environments.
• Engage with the Cassandra community through user lists, irc, blog posts, webinars, and open source projects.
• Contribute to rapid brainstorming, designing and developing of prototypes.
• Automate and provide documentation on operational procedures.
• Train and mentor junior team members.
• Provide performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity.
• Participate in company, and team meetings.
• Continued education in Pythian’s Operations as a Service supported stack.
• Provide on-call support in your team’s on-call rotational schedule.

What we need from you:

• While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be successful you are likely to have skills and experience such as:
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Over 2 to 3 years of experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, Scylla, CockroachDB. Cassandra experience preferred.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Shell, Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, Ansible), with Shell and Python being preferred.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with web applications, distributed systems and databases.
• Familiarity with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems.
• Understanding of continuous integration and automation practices.
• Knowledge of multiple monitoring, alerting and metric collection systems.
• An understanding of current IT service standards, such as ITIL.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• A self-motivated and directed approach to working in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong active listening skills.
• Robust analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Highly effective multitasking and organizational skills

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards and salary package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
• Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
• Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
• Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
• Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.

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