Cassandra Database Administrator

Pleasant Prairie, WI, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
Contract Corp To Corp
12 Months
Travel Required
Able to Sponsor
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Apache Cassandra
  • Apache Solr
  • Datastax
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Grafana
  • Ansible
  • Shell Scripting
  • Performance Tuning
  • Database Administration
  • Query Optimization

Summary

Role: DSE/Cassandra DBA & DataStax Developer
Location: Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin (5 Days a Week Onsite)
Type: C2H

Overall Experience: 10+ Years

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 7+ years Cassandra DBA experience, preferably with DataStax Enterprise (DSE)
  • DSE development experience including schema design, CQL optimization, and application performance tuning

Core DBA Responsibilities:

  • DSE Platform Health Checks, capacity planning, and cluster tuning
  • DSE Core daily operations, patches, upgrades, and version migrations
  • Automation of DBA tasks using Ansible playbooks and scripting
  • Creation/maintenance of DSE Runbooks for operational consistency
  • Production timeout investigation and root cause analysis
  • Evaluate options for workload reduction and performance optimization
  • DSE Search/Solr integration and Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI) implementation

Core Developer Responsibilities:

  • Design/optimize DSE data models, tables, and partition keys using CQL
  • Develop/tune CQL queries and applications using DataStax drivers
  • Build scalable distributed data architectures and schema evolution
  • Code/test scripts for data cleanup, repairs, and synchronization
  • Collaborate with development teams on query optimization and integration

Technical Skills:

  • Strong Shell scripting (Bash/Python) for automation
  • Dashboard creation (Grafana, Prometheus, DSE OpsCenter)
  • Experience with Ansible for infrastructure automation
  • Excellent troubleshooting and performance tuning skills

Soft Skills:

  • Strong communication and documentation abilities
  • Cross-functional collaboration with development and operations teams
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  • Dice Id: innom
  • Position Id: 9066105
  • Posted 2 days ago
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Podilachandra Dhanikesh Babu

Podilachandra Dhanikesh Babu

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