Job Title
Cockroach DBA
Location
Sunnyvale, CA / Austin, TX - Onsite
Client Name
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
Billing Rate
$68/hr on C2C
$63/hr on W2
Years of Experience
8-10 years
Full JD (Verbatim)
Job Title: Cockroach DBA
Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Austin, Tx, onsite
Billing Rate: 68/hr on c2c 63/ on w2
Experience Required: 8-10
** All submissions must have LinkedIn ID of candidate **
Role Descriptions:
Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy, operate, and scale multi-region CockroachDB clusters in production environments.
Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency for globally distributed clusters.
Monitor cluster health, latency, replication status, and resource utilization using observability tools.
Perform capacity planning and proactive scaling for future growth.
Troubleshoot complex database and infrastructure issues including:
Node failures
Network partitions
Leaseholder and range imbalance
Replication lag
Hotspotting
High latency / throughput bottlenecks
Design disaster recovery strategies (multi-region, backup/restore, failover/fallback).
Implement and test backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery processes.
Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrades of CRDB clusters.
Perform rolling upgrades with zero or near-zero downtime.
Optimize SQL query performance and database schema efficiency.
Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and on-call playbooks for CRDB.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production clusters.
Skills: CockroachDB
Mandatory Skills
CockroachDB (CRDB) - design, deployment, operations, and scaling
Multi-region cluster configuration and management
High availability and fault tolerance engineering
Cluster monitoring and observability tools
Disaster recovery strategy (backup/restore, failover/fallback)
SQL query performance tuning and schema optimization
Automation (provisioning, scaling, patching, upgrades)
Rolling upgrades with zero/near-zero downtime
Troubleshooting: node failures, network partitions, range imbalance, replication lag, hotspotting, latency/throughput bottlenecks
On-call incident response and runbook creation
Preferred Skills
Not explicitly specified in the provided JD
(Inferred based on responsibilities:)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
Kubernetes or containerized database deployments
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Distributed systems architecture knowledge
Additional Submission Requirement
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- Dice Id: 91171926
- Position Id: OOJ - 1145-149-1785176112
- Posted 6 hours ago
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