Cassandra DBA

Company Description

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Job Description

Title : Cassandra NoSQL DBA Consultant

Location : Fort Worth, TX

Type : Full Time Permanent

Job Description :

Relevant Experience (Yrs) : 8 years

Technical/Functional Skills :

• Two or more year’s total experience as physical
  DBA in the Cassandra platform.

• Strong understanding of the Cassandra data model
  and architecture including installation, configuration of a cluster.

• Strong understanding of complex inner workings
  of Cassandra, such as the gossip protocol, hinted handoffs, read repairs,
  Merkle trees and Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA).

• Strong understanding of what Replicas are,
  replica Placement Strategies, Partitions, Snitches, Dynamic Ring Participation
  and Security with in Cassandra.

• Five or more year’s total experience as physical
  DBA in a major RDBMS technology such as DB2, SQL Server or Oracle.

• Two or more year’s total experience in SQL.

• Two or more years of experience in
  database/application performance tuning and monitoring tools.

• Experience in database problem identification, problem
  diagnosis and resolution.

• Experience in building data architecture models
  and enforcing enterprise architecture standards and guidelines.

• Experience in implementing database high
  availability solutions.

• Candidate has excellent communication – ability
  to explain a technical problem to management.

• Candidate is a team player. Shares knowledge.
  Coaches team members.

• Ability to work on high performing teams and
  deliver under pressure situations.

Roles & 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
  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 such
  as DB2, SQL Server and Oracle environments 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 customer’s
  Architecture, as well as database design and usage standards.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Generic Managerial Skills : Good communication skill essential

Qualifications

Cassandra DBA

Additional Information

If available please contact me for more details at 856-842-1988 Ext - 157 or 856-258-8937