Cassandra Database Administrator

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Title: Cassandra Database Administrator

Location: Warsaw

Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days a week)

Employment type: Contract of Employment (UoP) or B2B

Project overview:

As an engineer in this team, the individual will be involved in the plan, build and run activities related to database technology and infrastructure. The role will contribute to the design/architect, solution engineering, and support; will be responsible for delivering database projects, maintaining the running systems, able to perform problem analysis and troubleshooting. The individual should be well versed in database administration and engineering practices and principles. The individual will share the responsibility of overall database build, deployment and support. He or she will provide technical influence and subject matter expertise for the database team, responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. The role serves as a technical/functional specialist and works independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.

As an engineer in this team:

• The individual will be involved in the plan, build, and run activities related to database technology and infrastructure.
• Support Database Reliability Engineering in the architecture, development, and deployment of NoSQL technologies.
• Participate in the evaluation, selection and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks like performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.
• Participate in Database Maintenance and DR activities.
• Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements.
• Write/maintain OS level scripts for DB automation and application maintenance.
• Physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain databases in production and non-production environments.
• Database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications and participating in on-call rotation.
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
• Participate in the evaluation, selection and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.

Mandatory requirements:

• Experience as Database Administrator working with Cassandra
• Experience with proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level 3 issues
• The individual should be well versed in database administration and engineering practices and principles.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Sound knowledge of all UNIX and Cassandra/MongoDB utilities