What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cassandra DBA Consultant position at Centraprise?
Job Title : Cassandra DBA Consultant
Job Location : Fort Worth TX (Onsite / Hybrid)
Customer is looking for a Database Administrator (DBA) contractor for staff augmentation purposes to help manage its NoSQL database environment. The position will be responsible for defining, implementing and maintaining BNSF?s physical Cassandra databases
for the enterprise. Candidate should possess extensive knowledge of all aspects of Cassandra including monitoring and performance tuning. Knowledge & experience with other NoSQL and RDBMS database technologies is a plus.
Duties and Responsibilities :
- Performs physical database administration (dba) tasks in Cassandra.
- Designs and builds simple to complex database structures from data models.
- Installs, configures and patches Cassandra.
- Provide rotating 24x7 on-call support for BNSF?s Cassandra environments as necessary.
- Work closely with application development teams to design, implement and support databases to support applications.
- Participates in design reviews as required to ensure database design meets application requirements.
- Designs, maintains, documents and executes database utilities to provide information regarding database activity.
- Proactively performs database monitoring and performance tuning tasks.
- Identify and provide innovative solutions to performance issues in multiple database environments.
- Performs basic dba tasks in RDBMS platforms as necessary.
- Provides automation to standard dba tasks. Able to develop scripts on UNIX and Windows platforms as necessary.
- Reviews and enforces adherence to the BNSF Architecture, as well as database design and usage standards.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications : Required
Preferred
