Site Reliability Engineer, Cassandra Admin, Linux, Cloud, Operations

Role Overview

• Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of world-class systems and databases.
• Collaborate with the technical teams of our customers, who are globally recognized companies in the gaming, banking, and logistics industries, ranging from large multinationals to emerging start-ups.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Apache Cassandra administration and architecture, with a desire to continuously learn and develop to an expert level.
• Experience in diagnosing and recommending mitigation strategies for Cassandra-related issues, including performance degradation due to resource bottlenecks, suboptimal data modeling leading to hot partitions, excessive tombstones, and inefficiencies caused by range slices and poorly constructed queries.
• Hands-on experience with Cassandra architecture and core administrative tasks, including compactions, repairs, backup and recovery, schema disagreement resolution, and configuration management.
• Experience handling Cassandra maintenance activities, including upgrades and migrations.
• Ability to investigate and research Cassandra issues by reviewing the Apache Cassandra codebase.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Linux, with the ability to work comfortably from the command line.
• Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and professionally in written and verbal English.
• Experience working with at least one public cloud platform, preferably AWS.
• Prior IT customer service or support experience within an ITIL-based environment.
• Strong fundamental computer science and software engineering skills, particularly in operating system internals, memory management, and networking.
• Ability to follow required processes and procedures and work collaboratively within a team.
• Programming skills in Python or Java, with experience using Git for source code control.
• Experience working with Docker and Ansible is a strong additional advantage.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Apache
• AWS
• Cassandra
• Cloud
• Docker
• Java
• Linux
• Python