Cassandra Database Consultant

Cassandra Database ConsultantRemote | India | #LI-Remote

Why you?Are you an experienced India based Cassandra DBA? Are you passionate about planning, designing and implementing new solutions? Do you enjoy evaluating existing solutions and helping to build automation tooling and processes to improve systems? Do you want to be part of an open source database team that will give you the opportunity to work with multiple database systems, as well as the infrastructures supporting complex, distributed systems including cloud infrastructure, configuration management, orchestration and continuous delivery platforms? Working as a Cassandra DBC at Pythian can hone your skills, helping you to grow your role, with a breadth of knowledge in platforms and technologies that few professionals can boast of! If you Love Your Data™ and enjoy solving complex technical problems and want to Love your career then this could be the job for you!

What will you be doing?

• As a Cassandra Database Consultant at Pythian, your primary focus will be on project work, debugging performance degradations, audits, and health checks.
• Once trained in, you will be included on a third tier on call rotation with other Consultants to respond to escalations and you will be expected to provide training and mentoring to junior team members.
• Designing and helping implement new Cassandra deployments
• Evaluating existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices
• Debugging high priority issues on mission critical production environments
• Be involved with Cassandra community through user lists, irc, blog posts, webinars, and open source projects
• Contributing to rapid brainstorming, designing and developing of prototypes
• Automating and providing documentation on operational procedures
• Training and mentoring junior team members
• Providing performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity
• Participating in company, and team meetings

What do we need from you?

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Solr, HBase, Hadoop, or Riak. Cassandra experience preferred
• Experience with at least one programing language such as Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, or Python. Java preferred
• Strong knowledge and experience of web applications, distributed systems and databases
• Experience with multiple orchestration and configuration management systems
• Familiar with multiple monitoring/alerting and metric collection systems
• Continuous integration and automation practices

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with an annual bonus
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• Love your work/life balance: 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours. All you need is a stable internet connection!
• Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and budget to personalize your work environment!
• Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.