Cloud Database Administrator

K&K Global Talent Solutions Inc. is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the Canada and the USA region since 1993.

This position is with one of our clients in USA, who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role:- Cloud Database Administrator   

Location:- San Jose, CA, RTP, NC (onsite) 

Fulltime

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

6+ years of hands-on experience in Apache Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise (DSE) administration.

Strong production experience working as a Cassandra L3 DBA / SME.

Strong experience administering Linux-based, on-premises Cassandra environments and shell scripting skills.

Strong experience with DataStax OpsCenter for monitoring, administration, alerting, and troubleshooting.

Secondary / Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Redis Stack administration and support.

• Experience administering Cassandra/databases in Kubernetes-based environments.

• Cassandra Spark and Graph workload experience.

• Working knowledge of:

o PostgreSQL

o MongoDB

o MySQL

• Willingness and ability to learn and support Microsoft SQL Server.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Apache Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise production clusters.

• Provide L3/SME-level support for Cassandra incidents, performance issues, and complex production problems.

• Perform Cassandra/DSE installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and ongoing maintenance.

• Manage node additions/removals, cluster scaling, capacity expansion, and data-center expansion.

• Manage Cassandra replication, consistency, partitioning, token/ring configuration, repair, and compaction.

• Perform and validate backup and restore activities to support database availability and recoverability.

• Monitor Cassandra environments using DataStax OpsCenter, including alerts, cluster health, capacity, and performance.

• Diagnose and resolve performance issues related to CPU, memory, disk I/O, latency, tombstones, SSTables, and compaction.

• Perform proactive monitoring and health checks to identify potential production issues.

• Use Linux and shell scripting to automate Cassandra administrative and operational activities.

• Support Redis Stack and other database technologies where required.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and engineering teams to troubleshoot database-related production issues.

• Develop skills in additional database platforms like mongo, mysql, including MS SQL Server, as required by the

role.