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.