Cassandra Database Consultant

Pythian is a multinational company specializing in strategic database and analytics services, with expertise in cloud environments, advanced analytics, and AI. They partner with major cloud providers and focus on digital transformation for mid and large-sized businesses.

Location: India

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Support DSE Enterprise environment, including Search and Analytics.
• Support Cassandra-related open-source tools, like Cassandra Medusa and Cassandra Reaper.
• 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.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Over 3 years of experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, Scylla, CockroachDB. Cassandra experience preferred.
• Proficiency in DSE Enterprise environment, including Search and Analytics.
• Proficiency in Cassandra-related open-source tools, like Cassandra Medusa and Cassandra Reaper.
• 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.

Benefits

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package, work hours flexibility, volunteer days.
• Love your work/life balance: Remote work, no daily travel, stable internet needed.
• Love your coworkers: Collaborate with industry experts.
• Love your development: Training allowance, professional development days, certifications.
• Love your workspace: Equipment provided, annual budget for workspace personalization.
• Love yourself: Wellness budget, paid vacation and sick days, volunteer day.

Additional Information

• The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.
• Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in any aspect of the selection process.
• Pythian may utilize AI tools in its hiring process, which do not substitute human judgment. Final decisions are made by human decision-makers.