YugabyteDB DevOps

Position: YugabyteDB DevOps/DBA Engineer

Client: US Bank

Location: 100 percent remote

Contract: 6 months to perm

Rate: $67/hr. on w-2

Interview process: 2 video interviews to hire



Must have: distributed database experience with YugabyteDB, Terraform,
Ansible, Gitlab, and cloud experience.


Project Overview

The ODP team is building out a greenfield YugabyteDB platform to serve as a
centralized, real-time analytics database. The long-term vision is to treat
this as a single platform where any team at US Bank can come in and pick a
single tool or leverage the full stack. They kicked off the Yugabyte
initiative last year, so the environment is still early-stage and growing.

A major initiative is migrating 750 Cassandra nodes to YugabyteDB - a
significant effort given the scale. YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database
compatible with both PostgreSQL and Cassandra Query Language (CQL), which
makes it a natural successor to Cassandra with the added benefit of strong
consistency and SQL support.


Key Responsibilities

* Automate the entire stack - the goal is a "click of a button"
deployment where the full YugabyteDB platform is installed and configured
end-to-end
* Build and maintain automation using Terraform (infrastructure
provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management)
* Support the migration from Cassandra YugabyteDB
* Clusters currently running on Azure; AWS environment is being set up
for Identity (ID) workloads and will go to production next quarter
* GitLab for CI/CD - pipelines are already built, so this person will
be working within an existing CI/CD framework
* First few months will be heavily focused on automation
* Production support is handled by a separate team, so this role is
focused on build/automation, not on-call


Team Structure

* Small team
* This is a combo DBA + DevOps/Automation role - they need someone who
understands database internals but can also build infrastructure-as-code and
automation tooling


Must-Have Skills

* Distributed database experience - YugabyteDB is ideal, but Cassandra
or similar (e.g., CockroachDB, ScyllaDB) will suffice
* Terraform and Ansible - core to the automation work
* CI/CD experience (GitLab preferred)
* Cloud experience - Azure and/or AWS


Nice-to-Have Skills

* YugabyteDB-specific experience
* Cassandra migration experience
* Multi-cloud deployment experience (Azure + AWS)
* Scripting (Python, Bash)